Quotes from David Hockney

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

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

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.

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

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Spring is very energising to me.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

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

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

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.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

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.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

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.