I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

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• David Hockney:

  Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

• David Hockney:

  Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

• David Hockney:

  People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply.

• David Hockney:

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

• David Hockney:

  I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

• David Hockney:

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

• David Hockney:

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

• David Hockney:

  I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

• David Hockney:

  The moment rules over everything.

• David Hockney:

  You must plan to be spontaneous.