380 Quotes by David Hockney

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

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

The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?