David Hockney Quotes

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
David Hockney

Age, Live, Artist

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.'
David Hockney

Work, Saying, Mean

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
David Hockney

Mean, Exciting, Yes

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

Everything, Chance, Blow

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
David Hockney

Today, Film, Using

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
David Hockney

Interested, Painters, Extent

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

Love, Another, Actually

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
David Hockney

Work, Art, Mind

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
David Hockney

Human, Fashion, Problems

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
David Hockney

Country, Small, Large

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

Remember, Moment, Picture

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

Mean, Thinking, Place

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!'
David Hockney

Change, Confused, Said

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
David Hockney

Eyes, Makes, Until

Easel painting means small painting.
David Hockney

Small, Means, Painting

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.
David Hockney

Looks, East, Unusual

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
David Hockney

Enjoyment, Landscape, Thrill

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
David Hockney

Days, Public, English

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
David Hockney

Done, Tell, Often

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
David Hockney

Talking, Listening, Saves

I don't value prizes of any sort.
David Hockney

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
David Hockney

Paint, Flatterer, Generally

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.
David Hockney

Technology, Someone, Different

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
David Hockney

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: July 9, 1937

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