David Hockney Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
David Hockney quotes and sayings page 6 (87 year old artist). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 113 we have for him.
“I'm not antisocial. I like people.”
“In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.”
“I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.”
“And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.”
“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.”
“Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.”
“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.”
“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.”
“Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?”
“I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.”
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