Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. – David Hockney
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
Well you cant teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. – David Hockney
To me, the worlds rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. – David Hockney
Im a very early riser, and I dont like to miss that beautiful early morning light. – David Hockney
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didnt quite have perhaps the drive or, I dont know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. – David Hockney
Im interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. – David Hockney
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, Things dont look like that! – David Hockney
Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. – David Hockney
People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – David Hockney
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I dont mind, Im just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isnt really a mainstream anymore, is there? – David Hockney
Art has to move you and design does not, unless its a good design for a bus. – David Hockney
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldnt be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. – David Hockney
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know youre an artist. – David Hockney
In my old age, Ill be in L.A. – David Hockney
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. – David Hockney
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. – David Hockney
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. – David Hockney
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. – David Hockney
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. – David Hockney
