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 believe mean
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.
artist stuff should
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
art men chinese
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
art future gone
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
christian art messages
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.
sleep artist iphone
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?
beauty hate artist
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
love california artificial
I love California; everything is so artificial.
artist drawing needs
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
believe artist needs
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.
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.
artist challenges want
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
art people chinese
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
art mind world
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?