380 Quotes by David Hockney

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

I’m not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

Well you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

You can’t name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren’t demands and you don’t need to reply. They’re simply for pleasure.

Television is becoming a collage – there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

I’ve no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way – the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that – made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

With watercolour, you can’t cover up the marks. There’s the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it’s lost its humanity.