People tend to forget that play is serious. – 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
People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – 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
Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson