A biography for David Hockneyhasn’t been written yet.
“I live wherever I happen to be.”
“I'm a bit of a propagandist.”
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
“On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.”
“I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.”
“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.”
“East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.”
“I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.”
“Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.”
“There are enough no smoking places now.”
“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.”
“Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.”
“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”