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
want today directors
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
photography art people
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
morning flower draws
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
feds fed-up
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
mean way kind
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
debate prison
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
photography believe mean
I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
space west open-spaces
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
diploma painting painter
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
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.
marijuana smoking enough
There are enough no smoking places now.
drawing painting mediums
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.