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" Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. "
David Hockney
You
Think
Liberty
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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. "
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" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
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" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "
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" It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. "
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" I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. "
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" I'm fed up with being bossed around. "
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" The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. "
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" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "
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" West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. "
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" The moment rules over everything. "
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" I live wherever I happen to be. "
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" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "
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Old
Sixteen
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" To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. "
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" There are enough no smoking places now. "
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Smoking
Places
" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "
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Craft
You
" I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. "
David Hockney
Like
Where
Paint
" When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. "
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Older
Painting
Nothing
" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "
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Another
Drawing
Just
" I value my friends. "
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Value
Friends
" 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. "
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Rivers
Valleys
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" I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. "
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Work
Looking
Me
" All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. "
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Photography
Interested
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" California is always in my mind. "
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" A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. "
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Just
Belief
Heavy
" I'm a natural sceptic. "
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Natural
" I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. "
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Anything
Computers
Paint
" Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. "
David Hockney
Television
Yourself
You
" 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. "
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Shadows
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People
" 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. "
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