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
enthusiasm might theater
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
artist might hedonism
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
tired might
Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.
might cover-ups stories
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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.