David Hockney Quotes
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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I value my friends.
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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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Interviewer: Love is certainly at the center of tolerance. They're intertwined, in a certain way. It helps you appreciate difference.Hockney: Yes. And that's probably why I do portraits. Everybody's different; they look different, and are different. Maybe deep, deep down we're all the same. But on the surface we seem to be different, don't we?
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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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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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 do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
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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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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
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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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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.
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I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.