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
years nhs people
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
art school years
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sleep artist iphone
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?
beauty hate artist
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
eye heart hands
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
thinking mirrors looks
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?
mother brother uncles
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.
believe artist needs
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.