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
mother brother uncles
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.
teaching should-have mad
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
technology
I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
drawing design opera
It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
feds fed-up
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
cameras kind computer
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
art cameras
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
ordinary-things ordinary excited
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
sea house crowds
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.
art school years
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
memories people looks
We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
interest
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
dark thinking enlightenment
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
thinking style treated
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.