David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. ”

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. ”

I prefer living in color. ”

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. ”

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. ”

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? ”

I value my friends. ”

I don't value prizes of any sort. ”

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. ”

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. ”