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
tired might
Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.
art strong light
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.
beautiful morning light
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
might cover-ups stories
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
unusual paint british
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
thinking space sound
I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
talking years drawing
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."
photography clearing-out needs
The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
fake-people work believe
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
planning spontaneous be-spontaneous
You must plan to be spontaneous.
moving editing way
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
people shadow cameras
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.
mean thinking make-you-think
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
artist people saws
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.