David Hockney Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Painting, Realising

• It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Design, Fax

• 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

• Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

  David Hockney

  Diploma, Painting, Painter

• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  David Hockney

  Spring, Space, Tree

• I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

  David Hockney

  Order, Painting

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

  David Hockney

  Art, Men, Chinese

• The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

  David Hockney

  Wall, Moving, Lasts

• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Editing

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

• I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

  David Hockney

  People, Interesting, Doubt

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

• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

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

• Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Painting

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

• My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

  David Hockney

  Worry, Doing Nothing, Painting

• I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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

• 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

• Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

  David Hockney

  Painting, Photoshop

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

• I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Painting, Mediums

• I do believe that painting can change the world.

  David Hockney

  Believe, World, Changing The World

• Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Thinking, Painting

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

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