380 Quotes by David Hockney

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

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?

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

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

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

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

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 did come from a pretty independent-minded family.