"Any artist will tell you he's really only……" — David Hockney

"Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that."

— David Hockney

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170 Quotes by David Hockney

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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a…
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a…
Faces are the most interesting things we see
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for…
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not…

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