“Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.” Quote by David Hockney
“I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.” HateI HateBackgroundsForegroundBackground Music Author:David Hockney
“Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.” ThinkingKnowsMeanSometimesCoursesLostPainting Author:David Hockney
“The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.” GivingMeanDocumentsClue Author:David Hockney
“I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.” SimpleShocked Author:David Hockney
“We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.” IfsKnowsWorldLooksMovingProjectsReflectionMirrors Author:David Hockney
“Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.” MadeWarShowsClaimsCamerasPhotograph Author:David Hockney
“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.” ThinkingWorldWayFilmTelevisionPerspectivePhotographyEuropeInstanceProjectionModernismCubismMatisseOceania Author:David Hockney
“The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.” ProblemPaintInkPrinting Author:David Hockney
“I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveMeanDoneBigsPhotographyCamerasFinishedChemicalsCartier Author:David Hockney