A biography for David Hockneyhasn’t been written yet.
“Anything simple always interests me.”
“I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.”
“People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.”
“Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.”
“The moment rules over everything.”
“Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.”
“I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.”
“Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.”
“I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.”
“It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.”
“I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.”
“Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.”
“Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.”
“I'm fed up with being bossed around.”
“I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.”
“In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.”
“Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.”
“I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.”
“Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!”
“I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.”