I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — 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… — 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
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a… — 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 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
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor.… — 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
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