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
silence ifs
If you like music you like silence actually.
talking years drawing
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."
tired might
Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.
fake-people work believe
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
unusual paint british
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
perspective cameras versatile
The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.
might cover-ups stories
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
home house looks
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
artist might hedonism
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
years drawing fifty
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.
artist age way
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way
statistics ends scissors
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
photography mean thinking
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
rain people puddles
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.