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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. ↗

— David Hockney

#artist #forgotten #i #i see #live

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' ↗

— David Hockney

#been #big #big change #change #confused

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. ↗

— David Hockney

#chess #drawing #eventually #like #make

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #anything #different #go #i

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #degree #garden #i #kyoto

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. ↗

— David Hockney

#almost #always #aware #being #drawing

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. ↗

— David Hockney

#art #art school #i #old #school

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. ↗

— David Hockney

#enthusiasm #i #looking #me #might

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #bother #could #go #good

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew