David Hockney Quotes About Painting
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I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.
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Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
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Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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