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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. ↗

— David Hockney

#celebrity #comedy #depiction #fashion #human

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. ↗

— David Hockney

#always #colour #constructed #constructing #did

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

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. ↗

— David Hockney

#drawing #how #i #i am #i see

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. ↗

— David Hockney

#cubism #developed #fully #i #i think

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. ↗

— David Hockney

#artist #been #bring #drive #family

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 worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. ↗

— David Hockney

#hospital #humanity #i #lost #national

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. ↗

— David Hockney

#excited #i #never #ordinary #ordinary things

I'm fed up with being bossed around. ↗

— David Hockney

#being #fed #fed up #i #up