David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, OM CH RAis an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth9 July 1937
liberty serious speak subject
Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.
becoming bit channels collage move sees television
Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
creating drive health pubs suburban
Pubs aren't health clubs. To me, we're creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad.
concerned growing health pubs throughout
It's really about liberty. I'm very concerned about a growing intolerance and bossiness throughout society. Pubs are not health clubs.
clark good mr mrs shut sound
When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn't sound as good as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. And it was my title, not hers, anyway.
quite
Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.
bring drive family liked mean perhaps quite
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.
people
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
nature
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
technology
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.
effective-listening listening
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
art people trying
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.
beautiful passion thinking
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
painting photoshop
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.