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
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts. — 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
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
The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need… — 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…… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you… — 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
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
