David Hockney World Quotations

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

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.

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?

I do believe that painting can change the world.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.