Quotes By David Hockney

There are enough no smoking places now.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

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

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

Like people, trees are all individuals.

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

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

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

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

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

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

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

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

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.'

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

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.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

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

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.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

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

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

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.