OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
David HockneyI think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David HockneyIt's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclopsโfor a split second.
David HockneyEverything 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 Hockney