David Hockney

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. ↗

— David Hockney

#guillotine #heavy #just #light #like

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. ↗

— David Hockney

#chance #everything #given #lot #me

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. ↗

— David Hockney

#directors #even #film #film directors #look

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. ↗

— David Hockney

#certain extent #extent #interested #painters #photography

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. ↗

— David Hockney

#another #corner #gogh #higher #higher level

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? ↗

— David Hockney

#anyway #art #art world #bit #edge

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. ↗

— David Hockney

#celebrity #comedy #depiction #fashion #human

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. ↗

— David Hockney

#get #gets #harder #i #keep

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. ↗

— David Hockney

#being #believable #draw #means #people

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. ↗

— David Hockney

#bus #design #does #good #move