380 Quotes by David Hockney

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn’t happen in music.

I’ve always been a looker. Loads of people say, “I never saw that” – but that’s what artists do.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you’ve taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn’t.

It’s time to debate images, especially when someone’s going to prison for downloading them.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it’s got to be organized.

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway – it is called medication.

I’m not going to stop painting just to take orders.

Faces are the most interesting things we see.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don’t mind, I’m just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn’t really a mainstream anymore, is there?