Quotes by : David Hockney

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom....

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology....

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is....

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with....

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.