David Hockney

Professions :

Photographer

Born :

July 9, 1937

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

trying people art

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get... by David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

draws flower morning

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

passion beautiful thinking

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beaut... by David Hockney

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

i-believe beautiful believe

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. by David Hockney

If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

world-view our-world views

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the pe... by David Hockney

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

perspective photography mind

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

portraiture people interesting

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

different memories people

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, w... by David Hockney

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

space people interesting

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do i... by David Hockney

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

effective-listening listening

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that... by David Hockney

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

saws artist people

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. by David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

ordinary-things excited ordinary

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good desig... by David Hockney

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

design art moving

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

divorce mean art

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.

effects difficult cameras

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look by David Hockney

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

teaching people looks

It takes a long time to make it simple. by David Hockney

It takes a long time to make it simple.

long-time simple long

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an a... by David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

sake cheating art

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.

mean believe art

You must plan to be spontaneous. by David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

be-spontaneous spontaneous planning

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