380 Quotes by David Hockney

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.