380 Quotes by David Hockney

It’s difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

I’m always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we’re working all the time.

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be ‘read’ by anybody. If this hadn’t been so, the Christian message wouldn’t have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

Any artist will tell you he’s really only interested in the stuff he’s doing now. He will, always. It’s true, and it should be like that.

Photographs aren’t accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

The cameras are getting smaller, they’re getting more versatile, and eventually, I’m sure you’ll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

It’s very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it’s er, an activity you do all the time actually.