David Hockney Quotes
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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I usually only draw myself in down periods. I do, actually. I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?
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Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
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I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
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The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
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I've always felt very English.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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I'm a bit of a propagandist.
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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
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California is always in my mind.
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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.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.