David Hockney Quotes

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
David Hockney

Another, Painting, Drawing

I live wherever I happen to be.
David Hockney

Live, Happen, Wherever

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

Made, Show, Point

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
David Hockney

Time, Mean, Actually

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
David Hockney

I prefer living in color.
David Hockney

Living, Color, Prefer

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
David Hockney

Wonderful, Pay, Loss

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
David Hockney

Time, Why, Stay

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
David Hockney

Style, Treated, Cubism

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
David Hockney

Seeing, Clearly

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
David Hockney

Family, Father, Mean

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
David Hockney

Dark, Leading, Hole

I value my friends.
David Hockney

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.
David Hockney

Thought, America, Moment

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
David Hockney

Music, Interest, Picasso

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
David Hockney

Hard, Said, Looking

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
David Hockney

Art, School, Old

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.
David Hockney

Humanity, Lost, Thought

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
David Hockney

Live, Sea, House

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

I'm a bit of a propagandist.
David Hockney

I'm a natural sceptic.
David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
David Hockney

Excited, Ordinary, Unlikely

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
David Hockney

Computers, Made, Interested

I'm not antisocial. I like people.
David Hockney

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: July 9, 1937

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