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
nature looks needs
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
mistake perspective world
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
art world interest
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
lenses tyranny
The lens is a tyranny.
our-world views world-view
If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
art giving interesting
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
technology
I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
wall thinking sketching
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?
art matter painting
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
art mean people
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
war cameras photograph
Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.
love family happiness
Faces are the most interesting things we see
independent
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
thinking seeing
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,