David Hockney Quotes

I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

You cannot have growth without change.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

I love to watch times change!

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.