380 Quotes by David Hockney

Tobacco is America’s greatest gift to the world!

What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

I’ve never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn’t interest me.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.

The video camera dominates art. It’s a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

There’s no-one up there in Northern Norway, food’s terrible, but it’s very, very beautiful to look at, if you’ve got eyes, and enjoy looking.

The pictures on the walls aren’t like movies. They don’t move, they don’t talk, and they’ll last longer. They will last longer.

There’s no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that’s what counts.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don’t.