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
giving smoking littles
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
art giving interesting
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
mean giving clue
The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
nature
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
people
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
bring drive family liked mean perhaps quite
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
clark good mr mrs shut sound
When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn't sound as good as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. And it was my title, not hers, anyway.
technology
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
liberty serious speak subject
Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.
education people brain
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.