380 Quotes by David Hockney

Faces are the most interesting things we see

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

We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution...

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.