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
shapes matter canvas
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...
art matter painting
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
quite
Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.
education people brain
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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.
law ideas perspective
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
photography war editing
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
thinking doubt century
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
want rich thrilling
I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
teaching people looks
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look
way cameras moments
The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
cameras difficult effects
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
smoking would-be habit
There would be no bohemia without smoking.
teaching should-have mad
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.