A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
David Hockney

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
David Hockney

Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney

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

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.
David Hockney

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.
David Hockney

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
David Hockney

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.
David Hockney

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
David Hockney

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
David Hockney

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.
David Hockney

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney

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.
David Hockney

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
David Hockney

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

There are enough no smoking places now.
David Hockney

We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney