David Hockney Quotes
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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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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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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.
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I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
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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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Easel painting means small painting.
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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
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I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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The moment rules over everything.
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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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I'm not antisocial. I like people.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.