David Hockney quotes

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. " # Design # Arts and Artists # Life and Living

" Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. " # Television

" When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary. So Picasso discovered that, as it were, and I'm sure that for him that was probably almost as exciting as discovering Cubism, rediscovering conventions of ordinary appearance, one-point perspective or something. The purists think you're going backwards, but I know you'd go forward. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. The Renaissance is not the same as ancient Greece; the Gothic revival is not the same as Gothic. It might look like that at first, but you can tell it's not. The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be. " # Photography # Love # Change

" If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. " # Arts and Artists # Change # Books - Reading

" Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about, he thought of them as working drawings. I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there. And then when you come to use line, if you know what you're looking at, it's much easier to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution to what you want to depict. " # Action # Love # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Arts and Artists # Painters and Painting # Love

" I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it. " # Pride # Theater # Arts and Artists

" In one gallery they actually had a notice which said "No Sketching." How obnoxious! I said, "How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?" " # Life and Living # Imagination # Journalism and Journalists

" Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. " # Television

" We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. " # Research # Age and Aging # Arts and Artists