Top 112 Quotes by David Hockney

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

Anything simple always interests me.

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.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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

The moment rules over everything.

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

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.