David Hockney Quotes
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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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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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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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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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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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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 natural sceptic.
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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 very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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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'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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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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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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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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 value my friends.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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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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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.