Quote

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

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
Documents
Picture
Gives
Looking
Giving
Mean
Clues
Document
Clue

More quotes by David Hockney

Image
You must plan to be spontaneous.
David Hockney
Image
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
David Hockney
Image
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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
If you are not playful you are not alive.
David Hockney
Image
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
David Hockney
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
David Hockney
Image
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
David Hockney
Image
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
David Hockney
Image
Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney
Image
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
David Hockney
Image
If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
David Hockney
Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
David Hockney
Image
I do believe that painting can change the world.
David Hockney
Image
Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
David Hockney
Image
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
David Hockney