380 Quotes by David Hockney

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

If you like music you like silence actually.

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

Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

Paint something every day.

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.