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.
believe world changing-the-world
I do believe that painting can change the world.
believe artist needs
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.
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.
beautiful believe i-believe
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
believe interesting way
I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There's no set rule.
believe mean hands
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?
education people brain
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
law ideas perspective
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
thinking doubt century
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
want rich thrilling
I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
smoking would-be habit
There would be no bohemia without smoking.
teaching should-have mad
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
technology media drawing
I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.