A biography for David Hockneyhasn’t been written yet.
“Like people, trees are all individuals.”
“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
“I'm a natural sceptic.”
“Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.”
“I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.”
“As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.”
“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.”
“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.”
“We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.”
“Tragedy is a literary concept.”
“The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.”
“I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.”
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
“I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.”
“I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.”
“When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'”
“All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.”
“I don't value prizes of any sort.”
“As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.”
“In my old age, I'll be in L.A.”