But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. – David Hockney
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. – David Hockney
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it’s er, an activity you do all the time actually. – David Hockney
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. – David Hockney
Who’s going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They’d say, ‘Can I see your paintings?’, wouldn’t they? – David Hockney
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. – David Hockney
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. – David Hockney
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume – there’s a flatness to them. – David Hockney
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. – David Hockney
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. – David Hockney
Photographs aren’t accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. – 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!’ – David Hockney