380 Quotes by David Hockney

When you stop doing something, it doesn’t mean you are rejecting the previous work. That’s the mistake; it’s not rejecting it, it’s saying, ‘I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.’

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.

I’m fed up with being bossed around.

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can’t divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

It’s all right if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops – for a split second.

I’m convinced that technology and art go together – and always have, for centuries.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.

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.