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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. ↗

— David Hockney

#day #draw #every #every day #flowers

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 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 I am seeing more clearly now than ever. ↗

— David Hockney

#clearly #ever #i #i am #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 think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. ↗

— David Hockney

#enlightenment #hole #i #i think #into

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 interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. ↗

— David Hockney

#brushes #cameras #computers #however #i