Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms… — 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
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. — 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
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 usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's… — 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 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
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… — 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
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and… — 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
