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
california mind
California is always in my mind.
space interesting people
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.
mean space people
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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.
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.
thinking greedy burden
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
art mean divorce
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
hard-work thinking artist
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
interesting people faces
Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
cheating art sake
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
children deep-within draws
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
photography believe mean
I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
photography thinking dull
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
drawing painting painting-and-drawing
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.