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
worry doing-nothing painting
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
diploma painting painter
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
drawing painting mediums
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
order painting
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
art matter painting
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
painting photoshop
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
mean thinking painting
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
drawing painting painting-and-drawing
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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.