Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.
David HockneyOn the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."
David HockneyThe history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
David HockneyThe editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
David HockneyIt's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
David Hockney