David Hockney Quotations | Page 2

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

Water colours are wet colours in water.

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.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

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

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.