David Hockney

Anything simple always interests me. ”

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. ”

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. ”

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. ”

I'm fed up with being bossed around. ”

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. ”

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. ”

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever. ”

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. ”

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 unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. ”