David Hockney Quotes

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become.

I believe that change keeps you young.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

It takes a long time to become young.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.