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
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.
real good-enough enough
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
moments bigs studios
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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.
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
performances i-can can-do
I've realized that I can do performances.
order painting
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
cameras kind computer
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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.