David Hockney Quotes

You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

The poem is itself a mirror.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look in the mirror less."

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.