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
eye heart hands
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
fall thinking hands
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.
photography art hands
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.
believe mean hands
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?
creating drive health pubs suburban
Pubs aren't health clubs. To me, we're creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad.
becoming bit channels collage move sees television
Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
quite
Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.
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.
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.