David Hockney Quotes

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David Hockney

Profession : Artist

Birth : July 9, 1937

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

David Hockney

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

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!'

David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

There are enough no smoking places now.

David Hockney

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

David Hockney

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

David Hockney

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

David Hockney

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

David Hockney

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

David Hockney

I've always felt very English.

David Hockney

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

David Hockney

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

David Hockney

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

David Hockney