Quotes By David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

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!'

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

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

I'm a natural sceptic.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

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.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

I've always felt very English.

Easel painting means small painting.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

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

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

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.

I've realized that I can do performances.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.