David Hockney Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  David Hockney

  Cheating, Art, Sake

• 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

  Art, People, Trying

• Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

  David Hockney

  Art, Moving, Design

  1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

• All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

  David Hockney

  Art, Alive, Contemporary

  "David Hockney Keeps Seeking New Avenues of Exploration". Interview with Mark Feeney, archive.boston.com. February 26, 2006.

• In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

  David Hockney

  Art, Understanding, Magic

  "Hockney and the Secrets of the Old Masters". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2001.

• The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

  David Hockney

  Art, Mean, People

• All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

  David Hockney

  Art, Matter, Painting

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

• 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

  Art, People, Chinese

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, People

• I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

  David Hockney

  Art, Believe, Mean

• I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

  David Hockney

  Art, Technology, Together

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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

  David Hockney

  Art, School, Years

  Interiew with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

• There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

  David Hockney

  Art, Men, Chinese

• What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

  David Hockney

  Art, Strong, Light

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

  David Hockney

  Christian, Art, Messages

• I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

  David Hockney

  Art, Cameras

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

  David Hockney

  Art, Mind, World

• Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

  David Hockney

  Art, Future, Looks

  "David Hockney". Book by David Hockney, 1981.

• ...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Taken

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

• No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.

  David Hockney

  Art, Giving, Interesting

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

• I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

  David Hockney

  Art, World, Interest

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

  David Hockney

  Art, Mean, Divorce

• The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Hands

• I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

  David Hockney

  Art, Thinking, Despair

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