David Hockney Quotes

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.

A great painting is a great painting.

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

I really like the language of painting.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.