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
art believe mean
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.
our-world views world-view
If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
simple shocked
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
photography men reality
I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
style want use
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
photography art taken
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
art world interest
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
technology media mass
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
teaching people looks
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look
want rich thrilling
I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
photograph said surface
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
worry doing-nothing painting
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
cameras difficult effects
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
age old-age
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.