David Quotes

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

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.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

I love California; everything is so artificial.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

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

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

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

I've realized that I can do performances.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

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

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

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?

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

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

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

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

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.