380 Quotes by David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

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

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

The lens is a tyranny.

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?

If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.

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