I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of… — 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
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — 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
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
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... — 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
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. — 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
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead,… — 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
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer. — 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
