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
said feels wells
I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
mean thinking painting
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
photography real depiction
Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.
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.
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.
eye drawing ache
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
art moving design
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
mean serious cheeky
Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious
teaching years drawing
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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.
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.
photography thinking europe
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe . And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.
photography thinking dull
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.