The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed...… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it… — David Hockney Copy Share
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,… — David Hockney Copy Share
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney Copy Share
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment,… — David Hockney Copy Share
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things… The high-tech,… — David Hockney Copy Share
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see… — David Hockney Copy Share
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art… — David Hockney Copy Share
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at… — David Hockney Copy Share
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times… — David Hockney Copy Share
