All David Hockney Quotes
- Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in… Artist
- Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I… All
- I love California; everything is so artificial. Artificial
- No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may… All
- Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model. Draw
- I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look… Alone
- If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends. Canvas
- It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes… Artist
- In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time… Art
- 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. Last
- Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the… Alive
- The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes… Combustion
- With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired… Absolutely
- The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and… Art
- I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the… Always Believe
- Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we… All
- I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no… Believe
- The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is… Affects
- The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That… Been
- How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once.… Camera
- I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I… All
- I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough. Any
- I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone,… Anyone
- The lens is a tyranny. Inspirational
- With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story… Another Story