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
diploma painting painter
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
thinking deafness ifs
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
moving mystery wells
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
moving drawing race
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
marijuana smoking enough
There are enough no smoking places now.
drawing painting mediums
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
memories people looks
We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
mean drawing draws
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
real good-enough enough
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
moments bigs studios
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
photograph fractions scrutiny
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
people needs demand
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
ipads iphone thumbs
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.