Faces are the most interesting things we see David Hockney More Quotes by David Hockney More Quotes From David Hockney The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. David Hockney deep-withindrawschildren Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. David Hockney landscapewornpaint I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. David Hockney drawingteachingyears I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. David Hockney puddlesrainpeople I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life. David Hockney greedyburdenthinking About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow. David Hockney camerasshadowpeople In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can. David Hockney magicunderstandingart 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. David Hockney good-artartistmean California is always in my mind. David Hockney californiamind It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. David Hockney fake-peopleworkbelieve The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more. David Hockney photographyhandsart Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. David Hockney lungslaughing I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial. David Hockney photographydullthinking Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually. David Hockney black-and-whitecolorideas I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one. David Hockney distancehumanitytogether Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures. David Hockney tiredmight ...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby. David Hockney photographytakenart Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world. David Hockney photographyeuropethinking I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. David Hockney computercameraskind Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. David Hockney photoshoppainting
