Quote

Water colours are wet colours in water.

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
Colour
Water
Colours
Wet

More quotes by David Hockney

Image
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
David Hockney
Image
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
David Hockney
Image
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
David Hockney
Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
Image
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
Image
California is always in my mind.
David Hockney
Image
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
David Hockney
Image
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
David Hockney
Image
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
David Hockney
Image
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
David Hockney
Image
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 don't look like that!'
David Hockney
Image
I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
David Hockney
Image
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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
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
Image
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
David Hockney
Image
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney
Image
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
David Hockney
Image
There would be no bohemia without smoking.
David Hockney
Image
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