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David Hockney Quotes

English - Artist | July 9, 1937 -

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

Good Enough Real Photograph

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Name Camera You Invention Chemical

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Work You Spontaneity Keep Get Older

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

Style Think Been Like I Think Fully

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Value Prizes Sort Any

Anything simple always interests me.

Simple Me Always Anything Interests

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Light Belief Heavy Just Like

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.

Love Think Portrait You Corner Well

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Poetry You Teach Craft Well

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

Kind Way Mean Yes Abstract Because

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

Say Hollywood Up Well Could Brought

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Art Shadow People Shadows Pictures

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