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
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
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