Top 112 Quotes by 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!'

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

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

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

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

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

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