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
mean artist good-art
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
remember difficult colour
It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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.
simple simplicity interest
Anything simple always interests me.
art strong light
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.
drawing silence noise
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
blow people chance
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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.
moving editing way
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
landscape paint worn
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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.
beautiful believe i-believe
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
meaningful drawing lovely
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution...