David Hockney Paint Quotations

Paint something every day.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

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