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
dark thinking enlightenment
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
night design opera
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
giving smoking littles
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
photography art hands
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.
wall moving lasts
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
our-world views world-view
If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
art mean people
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
war cameras photograph
Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.
simple shocked
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
believe interesting way
I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.
distance humanity together
I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.
landscape thrill enjoyment
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
views mind world
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
moving becoming different
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.