Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. — 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
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 camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they… — 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
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
The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal,… — 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
I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - because that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got… — 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
We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of… — 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
