The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to… — 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
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
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
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — 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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