David Hockney Quotes
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I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
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The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.
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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.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
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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.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
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Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
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Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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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.
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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.
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I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
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The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
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Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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