David Hockney Artist Quotations

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

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.