David Hockney Quotes

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Wisdom begins at the end.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

It's important to be enlightened.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.