David Hockney

“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”

“Spring cannot be cancelled.”

“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing.”

“Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people are the most interesting things we see.”

“The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it. But most people don't look very much.”

“I prefer to live in colour.”

“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still.”

“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”

“I believe that the very process of looking can be a spiritual act.”

“Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.”

“The camera is an optical instrument, not a human being.”

“In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling.”

“I'm always excited by the unlikely, the dangerously irrational.”

“I think I'm a much better painter for having been a photographer.”

“Listening is a positive act. You have to put yourself out to do it.”