Top 112 Quotes by David Hockney

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

I prefer living in color.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

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 a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I've realized that I can do performances.