David Hockney Looks Quotations

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

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