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

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

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.

David Hockney

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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!'

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

David Hockney

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

David Hockney

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

David Hockney

I've always felt very English.

David Hockney

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

David Hockney

Anything simple always interests me.

David Hockney

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

David Hockney

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

David Hockney

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

David Hockney

There are enough no smoking places now.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

David Hockney

Easel painting means small painting.

David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

David Hockney

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

David Hockney