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
beautiful passion thinking
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
space interesting people
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.
california mind
California is always in my mind.
believe mean hands
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?
drawing missing done
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
art people trying
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
effective-listening listening
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
clark good mr mrs shut sound
When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn't sound as good as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. And it was my title, not hers, anyway.
creating drive health pubs suburban
Pubs aren't health clubs. To me, we're creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad.
becoming bit channels collage move sees television
Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
age
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
concerned growing health pubs throughout
It's really about liberty. I'm very concerned about a growing intolerance and bossiness throughout society. Pubs are not health clubs.
I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.