David Hockney Quotes

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Art is all in the details.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Art is the child of Nature.

I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

I believe in creative work.