Top 246 Quotes & Sayings by David Hockney
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English artist David Hockney.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
The moment rules over everything.
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
I'm not antisocial. I like people.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
I've always felt very English.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
You must plan to be spontaneous.
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
I prefer living in color.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
Like people, trees are all individuals.
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
Spring is very energising to me.
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
I value my friends.
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
Anything simple always interests me.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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