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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

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. ↗

— David Hockney

#avoid #because #days #english #i

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. ↗

— David Hockney

#designs #fiddle #i #nights #obsessive

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'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington. ↗

— David Hockney

#claustrophobic #come #crowds #house #i

Like people, trees are all individuals. ↗

— David Hockney

#like #people #trees

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. ↗

— David Hockney

#listening #out #positive #put #you

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#been #born #brains #given #hands

I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#different #each #gives #i #me