David Hockney quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

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

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.

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

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.