Quotes By David Hockney
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
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
David Hockney
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
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
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
David Hockney
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
David Hockney
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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
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
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
David Hockney