380 Quotes by David Hockney

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I love California; everything is so artificial.

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.