In the week where David Hockney’s “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” became the highest sale for a living artist (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/15/david-hockney-painting-record-auction-living-artist), a few of his memorable gems of wisdom:
“All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it’s got to be organized.”
“All art is contemporary, if it’s alive, and if it’s not alive, what’s the point of it?”
“It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.”
“When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.”
“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn’t be an artist if you didn’t want to share an experience, a thought.”
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” David Hockney