I go and see anything thats visually new, any technology thats about picture-making. The technology wont make the pictures different, but someone using it will. – David Hockney
People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – David Hockney
Well you cant teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. – David Hockney
Art has to move you and design does not, unless its a good design for a bus. – David Hockney
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell