Hockney Artist Quotes & Sayings

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

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always. — David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time. — David Hockney

Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life's last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that. — David Hockney

Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone ... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed ... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that ... Artists can't work office hours, can they? — David Hockney

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw. — David Hockney

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society. — Vladimir Putin

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts. — David Hockney

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do. — David Hockney

Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours. — Martin Gayford

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are. — 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

want to hamstring him. Didn't want him — Jenna Bennett

People interpret things in a linear form but science proves otherwise. — Robin Sacredfire

What you fuck is much more important than how you write. — Jeanette Winterson

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney

At the end of the day you have to go home to yourself. You have to be with yourself. So make sure what you're doing in business is representative of who you are and that you feel comfortable and that you can stand behind your work. — Kathryn Finney

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

There is more talke then trouble. — George Herbert

Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression. — La Meri

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. — Peter Doig

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. — Laure Manaudou

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise. — Tom Felton

He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved. — Alexander McCall Smith

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess. — Juliana Of The Netherlands

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. — David Hockney