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
photography art taken
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
art world interest
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
technology media mass
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
teaching people looks
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look
want rich thrilling
I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
photograph said surface
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
worry doing-nothing painting
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
cameras difficult effects
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
age old-age
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
education people brain
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
thinking order facts
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
water colour wet
Water colours are wet colours in water.
law ideas perspective
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
beautiful eye norway
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.