David Hockney

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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