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
loss ipads drawing
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
mean drawing draws
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
mean way kind
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
photography clearing-out needs
The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
debate prison
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
space west open-spaces
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
diploma painting painter
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
powerful confused reading
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.
thinking deafness ifs
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
moving drawing race
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
marijuana smoking enough
There are enough no smoking places now.
marijuana smoking want
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
morning flower draws
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
photography art people
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.