David Hockney Quotes - Page 6

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

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.

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

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.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

I love California; everything is so artificial.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

There are enough no smoking places now.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

Paint something every day.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

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

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

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

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.