380 Quotes by David Hockney

I’m sure that the camera is part of European art.

It’s the very process of looking at something that makes it beautiful.

When you’re very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It’s quite exciting, and you’re prepared to do anything.

I’ve realized that I can do performances.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume – there’s a flatness to them.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can’t actually. The camera can’t.

I prefer living in color.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.