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
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.
moving drawing race
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
mean drawing draws
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
loss ipads drawing
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
meaningful drawing lovely
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution...
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.
eye drawing ache
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
teaching years drawing
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
teaching should-have mad
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
artist stuff should
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
believe world changing-the-world
I do believe that painting can change the world.
art men chinese
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
education degrees certificates
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.