380 Quotes by David Hockney

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.