I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. — 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
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. — 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
The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the… — 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
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - because that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually… — 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… — 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
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not… — 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 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 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
I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across… — 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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