David Hockney Quotes

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technolog...

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, wi...

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first...

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the ...