David Hockney Needs Quotations

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

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.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.