Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David HockneyI never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
David HockneyThe moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
David HockneyWe don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
David Hockney