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
eye drawing ache
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
art moving design
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
mean serious cheeky
Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious
drawing painting painting-and-drawing
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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.
mean artist good-art
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
photography thinking interesting
I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.
cheating art sake
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
photography thinking europe
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe . And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.
photography thinking dull
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
remember difficult colour
It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
children deep-within draws
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
art mean divorce
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.