David Hockney

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?

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

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

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.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.