Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Especially
Silence
Lines
Drawings
Talk
Concentrate
Making
Prefer
Persons
Noise
Person
Drawing
Never
Line
More quotes by David Hockney
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
David Hockney
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
David Hockney
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
David Hockney
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
David Hockney
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
David Hockney
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
David Hockney
The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
David Hockney
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
David Hockney
It takes a long time to make it simple.
David Hockney
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
David Hockney
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
David Hockney
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
David Hockney
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
David Hockney
It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
David Hockney
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
David Hockney
I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
David Hockney
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
David Hockney
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
David Hockney
