David Hockney Quotes
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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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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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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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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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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'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 very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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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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 was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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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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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 think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
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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'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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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 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 a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.