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
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.
ordinary-things ordinary excited
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
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.
thinking style treated
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
order painting
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
enthusiasm might theater
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
real good-enough enough
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
moments bigs studios
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
ipads iphone thumbs
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
performances i-can can-do
I've realized that I can do performances.