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
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time. — 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
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. — 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
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me. — 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
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 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
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 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
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Image
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Image
