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
mean thinking painting
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
laughing lungs
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
perspective cameras versatile
The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.
drawing sketching lines
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it
photography real depiction
Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.
thinking levels portraits
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
want paint wanted
I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.
spontaneity harder bits
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
eye drawing ache
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
art moving design
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
mean serious cheeky
Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious
drawing painting painting-and-drawing
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
teaching years drawing
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.