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David Hockney Quotes: Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
         

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.


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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.



What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.



If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.



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

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



Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.



The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.



Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.



In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.



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.

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.



The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.





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Asking good questions is half of learning.



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It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.



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If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.



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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.



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I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.



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I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.



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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.




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