380 Quotes by David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it’s going back to painting.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people – the point where we go inside them – is the face. It tells all.

The camera can’t see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

All art is contemporary, if it’s alive, and if it’s not alive, what’s the point of it?

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like a pretty face.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I’m coming ’round to the view that there’s only a personal view of the world.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it.