David Hockney Quotes
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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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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 very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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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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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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I value my friends.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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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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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said 'No Sketching.' How obnoxious! I said, 'How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?'
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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 do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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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The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?