David Hockney Quotes

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

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

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

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

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?

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

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

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

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

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

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

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

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.