Quotes By David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm not antisocial. I like people.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

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

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.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

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.

The moment rules over everything.

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

We grow small trying to be great.

I live wherever I happen to be.