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David Hockney Quotes: 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.


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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.



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.



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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The world needs your story in order to be complete.



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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.



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Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.



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