David Hockney Quotes
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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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 a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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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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I value my friends.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.