380 Quotes by David Hockney

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

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

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 paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.

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