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 certain painter
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
america world greatest-gifts
Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!
tragedy concepts
Tragedy is a literary concept.
artist challenges want
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
art matter painting
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
independent
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
wall thinking sketching
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?
art mind world
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
ipads joy letters
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
knows bits
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
strong swimming men
Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
interesting people doubt
I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
hollywood bradford wells
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood
crafts teach wells
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.