David Hockney

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. ”

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. ”

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. ”

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. ”

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. ”

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. ”

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. ”

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. ”

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. ”

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. ”