David Hockney Quotes

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

Artists are like everybody else.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.