David Hockney Quotes
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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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Tragedy is a literary concept.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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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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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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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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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 a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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 haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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 mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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 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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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 went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.