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
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.
believe artist needs
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.
alive ifs
If you are not playful you are not alive.
knows bits
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
pairs needs scissors
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.
interesting people doubt
I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
style want use
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
strong swimming men
Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
photography art taken
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
photograph said surface
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
hollywood bradford wells
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood
artist challenges want
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
war army fighting
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.