I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David HockneyAs you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
David HockneyOnce 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.
David HockneyWe live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
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 Hockney