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
photography thinking interesting
I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.
silence ifs
If you like music you like silence actually.
mean serious cheeky
Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious
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.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
talking years drawing
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."
tired might
Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.
planning spontaneous be-spontaneous
You must plan to be spontaneous.
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.
fake-people work believe
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
thinking space sound
I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
unusual paint british
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
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.
might cover-ups stories
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.