David Hockney Quotes
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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 haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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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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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 actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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 mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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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I value my friends.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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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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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
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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.