United Kingdom, Painter July 9, 1937
David Hockney, OM, CH, RA is an English painter, draftsman, 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.
Also known as Printmaker, Designer, Photographer
There are enough no smoking places now.
I don't value prizes of any sort.
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
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