Quotes by David Hockney

About David Hockney:

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London. Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

David Hockney

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

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

David Hockney

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?

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

David Hockney

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

David Hockney

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

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

David Hockney

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

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

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

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

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

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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.

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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

David Hockney

Author Bio

  • NameDavid Hockney
  • DescriptionBritish artist
  • BornJuly 9, 1937
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPainter; Photographer
  • WorksA Bigger Splash
  • AwardsPraemium Imperiale