David Hockney Quotes

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

Through art, you create your own world.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.