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
art cameras
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
performances i-can can-do
I've realized that I can do performances.
order painting
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
cameras kind computer
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
powerful confused reading
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.
ordinary-things ordinary excited
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
sea house crowds
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
interest
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
photography thinking long
I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.
dark thinking enlightenment
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
thinking style treated
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
night design opera
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
photography depiction representation
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.