Quote

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

David Hockney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Art
Originality
Two
Divorce
Cannot
Aware
Without
Ways
Mean
Seeing
Way
Feeling
Time
Space
Feelings

More quotes by David Hockney

Image
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
Image
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
David Hockney
Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
David Hockney
Image
I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
David Hockney
Image
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
David Hockney
Image
I do believe that painting can change the world.
David Hockney
Image
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
David Hockney
Image
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
David Hockney
Image
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
David Hockney
Image
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
David Hockney
Image
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
David Hockney
Image
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney
Image
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
David Hockney
Image
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
David Hockney
Image
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney
Image
It takes a long time to make it simple.
David Hockney
Image
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney
Image
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
David Hockney
Image
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
David Hockney
Image
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
David Hockney