Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
David Hockney
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Problems
Fashion
Comedy
Interest
Problem
Depiction
Human
Absorb
Humans
Celebrity
World
Usual
More quotes by David Hockney
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
David Hockney
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
David Hockney
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
David Hockney
If you are not playful you are not alive.
David Hockney
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
David Hockney
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
David Hockney
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
David Hockney
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
David Hockney
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
David Hockney
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
David Hockney
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
David Hockney
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
David Hockney
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
David Hockney
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
David Hockney
I do believe that painting can change the world.
David Hockney
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
David Hockney
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
David Hockney
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
David Hockney
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
David Hockney
The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
David Hockney