We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. David Hockney More Quotes by David Hockney More Quotes From David Hockney Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. David Hockney ache drawing eye The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. David Hockney scissors statistics ends It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. David Hockney fax drawing design I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. David Hockney surface photograph said People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,' David Hockney village drawing people 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. David Hockney future looks art I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. David Hockney save-me listening talking Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. David Hockney space mean people In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. David Hockney artist challenges want When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. David Hockney realising painting drawing Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious David Hockney cheeky serious mean I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do. David Hockney wells said feels I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes. David Hockney get-better moving thinking With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely! David Hockney photography editing war Drawing takes time. A line has time in it David Hockney sketching drawing lines There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. David Hockney chinese men art I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world. David Hockney individuality views world 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. David Hockney make-you-think mean thinking 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... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution. David Hockney lovely drawing meaningful Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking. David Hockney depiction photography real
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