David Hockney

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

age


David Hockney

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

art


David Hockney

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

art


David Hockney

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

art


David Hockney

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

art


David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

art


David Hockney

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

art


David Hockney

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

art


David Hockney

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

change


David Hockney

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

computers


David Hockney

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

design


David Hockney

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

experience


David Hockney

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

family


David Hockney

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

family


David Hockney

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

history


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