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
believe world changing-the-world
I do believe that painting can change the world.
drawing people village
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
art men chinese
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
education degrees certificates
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
freedom young exciting
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
art future gone
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
simple thinking ipads
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.
habit paint
Paint something every day.
christian art messages
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.
shapes matter canvas
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...
views individuality world
I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.
sleep artist iphone
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?
beauty hate artist
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
love california artificial
I love California; everything is so artificial.