David Hockney Quotes

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David Hockney

Profession : Artist

Birth : July 9, 1937

I prefer living in color.

David Hockney

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

The moment rules over everything.

David Hockney

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hockney

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

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What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

David Hockney

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

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I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

David Hockney

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

David Hockney

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

David Hockney

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney