David Hockney Quotes

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

The best of any artist is in their art.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I grew up with artists.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

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

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

I can draw really well.

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.