Quotes by David Hockney

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

"It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them."

"On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger."

"When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing."

"Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs."

"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."

"Anything simple always interests me."

"I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see."

"There are enough no smoking places now."

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it."

"Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make."

"When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'"

"I'm fed up with being bossed around."

"You must plan to be spontaneous."

"Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache."

"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."

"Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill."

"I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will."

"Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it."

"Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft."