“ I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. David Hockney
“ We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. David Hockney
“ I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. David Hockney
“ I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. David Hockney
“ Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' David Hockney
“ I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. David Hockney
“ 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 c… David Hockney
“ 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
“ You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new e… David Hockney
