I do believe that painting can change the world. 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-within draws children Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. David Hockney landscape worn paint 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 drawing teaching years 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 puddles rain people 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 greedy burden thinking 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 cameras shadow people 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 magic understanding art 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-art artist mean California is always in my mind. David Hockney california mind It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. David Hockney fake-people work believe 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 photography hands art Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. David Hockney lungs laughing 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 photography dull thinking 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-white color ideas 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 distance humanity together 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 tired might ...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 photography taken art 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 photography europe thinking I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. David Hockney computer cameras kind Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. David Hockney photoshop painting
