It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the… — 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
I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world. — 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
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction… — 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
