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
views mind world
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
rain people puddles
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
artist age way
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way
hate backgrounds background-music
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
photography mean thinking
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
moving becoming different
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
art alive contemporary
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
photography
I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
statistics ends scissors
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
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.
artist able paint
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
art technology together
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.
home house looks
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
hard-work thinking artist
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.