380 Quotes by David Hockney

I’m really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I’m interested in anything that makes a picture.

In fact, I’m a bit of a slob, but I’ve always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can’t. That’s my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it’s a good one.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you’re using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn’t necessarily be.

I’m interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He’s a worker, always.

Future art that is based on appearances won’t look like the art that’s gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that’s all about photography, and photography’s not that interesting, and it’s changing anyway.

It’s a myth that if you’re liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.