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
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.
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.
simple thinking ipads
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.
christian art messages
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.
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.
love california artificial
I love California; everything is so artificial.
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.