380 Quotes by David Hockney

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe . And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

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

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.