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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
— David Hockney
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
— David Hockney
I prefer living in color.
— David Hockney
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
— David Hockney
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
— 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
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
— David Hockney
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
— David Hockney
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
— David Hockney
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
— David Hockney
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
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
— David Hockney
I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
— David Hockney
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
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
— David Hockney
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
— David Hockney
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
— David Hockney
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
— David Hockney
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
— David Hockney
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.
— David Hockney
The moment rules over everything.
— David Hockney
Anything simple always interests me.
— David Hockney
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
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
— David Hockney
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
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
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
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
— David Hockney
I don't value prizes of any sort.
— David Hockney
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
— David Hockney
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.
— 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
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
— David Hockney
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.
— David Hockney
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
— David Hockney
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
— David Hockney
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
— David Hockney
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
— David Hockney
You must plan to be spontaneous.
— David Hockney
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
— 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
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
Tragedy is a literary concept.
— David Hockney
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
— David Hockney
Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!
— David Hockney
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
— David Hockney
Spring is very energising to me.
— David Hockney
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
— David Hockney
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
— 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
Easel painting means small painting.
— David Hockney
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
— David Hockney
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
— David Hockney
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
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
— David Hockney
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
— David Hockney
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
— David Hockney
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
— David Hockney
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
— 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
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