Hockney Quotes

“Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.”

“Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.”

“Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.”

“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.”

“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!'”

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

“I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.”

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

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

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

“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”