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
thinking deafness ifs
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
moving mystery wells
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
moving drawing race
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
memories people looks
We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
mean drawing draws
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
photograph fractions scrutiny
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
people needs demand
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
ipads iphone thumbs
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
art cameras
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
powerful confused reading
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.
ordinary-things ordinary excited
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
sea house crowds
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
interest
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
photography thinking long
I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.