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
landscape thrill enjoyment
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
quite
Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.
liberty serious speak subject
Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.
technology
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
nature
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
people
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
bring drive family liked mean perhaps quite
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
education people brain
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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.
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.
photography war editing
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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.
teaching people looks
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look