Quotes by David Hockney

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

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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

— David Hockney

Wisdom

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

— David Hockney

Happiness

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

— David Hockney

Happiness

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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

— David Hockney

Wisdom

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

You must plan to be spontaneous.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

— David Hockney

Success

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!'

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

There are enough no smoking places now.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

Anything simple always interests me.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

— David Hockney

Success

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

— David Hockney

Wisdom

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

— David Hockney

Wisdom