380 Quotes by David Hockney

I’m very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

Of course you can still paint landscape – it’s not been worn out.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don’t know whether you’re thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street – then you don’t have to look at it.

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it’s quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people ‘come out’ it’s quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You’d have to edit things in new ways.

It’s all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it’s not art.

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I’m not saying, er, I’m saying chemical photography’s finished, that means you can’t have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.