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
talking years drawing
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."
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.
fake-people work believe
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
planning spontaneous be-spontaneous
You must plan to be spontaneous.
moving editing way
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
people shadow cameras
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.
mean thinking make-you-think
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
artist people saws
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
home iphone needs
I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.
moving thinking get-better
I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
painting photoshop
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
said feels wells
I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
real perspective definitions
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
silence ifs
If you like music you like silence actually.