David Hockney
Quotes from other people about Hockney
'But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.'
'David Hockney thinks that over his lifetime art has become "less". He blames the art establishment (museums, galleries, art schools) for becoming over-enamoured with conceptual art: "It gave up on images a bit" the artist laments.'
Quotes from David Hockney
'Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?'
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. '
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'
'All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.'
Facts about David Hockney
He was born on the 9th of July 1937.
He is an English painter and photographer.
David Hockney lives in Los Angeles, where he has live for for 30 years now.
David Hockney's Joiners
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One of his first photocollages was of his mother.
Because these photographs are taken from different
perspectives and at slightly different times, the result
is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one
of Hockney’s major aims – discussing the way human vision works.
Because these photographs are taken from different
perspectives and at slightly different times, the result
is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one
of Hockney’s major aims – discussing the way human vision works.