Top 112 Quotes by David Hockney

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

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

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.

Spring is very energising to me.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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.