David Hockney Quotes

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney

Live, House, Street

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney

Good, Art, Design

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
David Hockney

Mind, Long, Fact

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.
David Hockney

Art, Experience, Trying

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney

Art, Beauty, Moment

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney

Work, Good, Advice

Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney

Simple, Interests

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

Put, Able, Means

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney

Nothing, Everything, Else

We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney

Great, Trying, Small

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

Work, Keep, Older

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

Time, Long, Mean

California is always in my mind.
David Hockney

Mind, California

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

Makes, Actually, Hear

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
David Hockney

Positive, Yourself, Put

There are enough no smoking places now.
David Hockney

Enough, Smoking, Places

You must plan to be spontaneous.
David Hockney

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
David Hockney

Light, Belief, Heavy

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney

Mind, Rather, Playing

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

Morning, Friends, Flowers

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
David Hockney

Done, Spring, Wonderful

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney

Greatest, Doubt, Century

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
David Hockney

Morning, Beautiful, Light

I'm fed up with being bossed around.
David Hockney

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney

Life, Down, Smoking

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: July 9, 1937

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