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David Hockney
1937 • English • Artist
63
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Collected Meditations
Showing 63 quotesIt's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.— David Hockney
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.— David Hockney
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.— David Hockney
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.— David Hockney
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.— David Hockney
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.— David Hockney
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.— David Hockney