David Hockney > Quotes

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.”
― David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

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

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

“It's the very process of looking at something that makes it beautiful.”
― David Hockney

“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You have to look and to work. That’s exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That’s what you need.”
― David Hockney

“Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We'll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.”
― David Hockney, Spring Cannot Be Cancelled

“I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.”
― David Hockney

“The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it. But most people don't look very closely. They scan the ground ahead of them so they can walk, but they don't observe things very attentively, intensely. I observe, & I've always known that.”
― David Hockney