A biography for David Hockneyhasn’t been written yet.
“You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.”
“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”
“Britain is a very small country with a very large press.”
“It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.”
“I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.”
“I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.”
“I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.”
“Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?”
“When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.”
“I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.”
“I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.”
“I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.”
“California is always in my mind.”
“You must plan to be spontaneous.”
“I value my friends.”
“Easel painting means small painting.”
“I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.”
“My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.”
“I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.”
“Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.”