David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. ”

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. ”

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. ”

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. ”

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. ”

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. ”

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. ”

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. ”

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' ”

I'm a natural sceptic. ”