But you can change it, if you start to think big. As most of our beliefs, perceptions and understandings are conditioned in certain ways, which limit bandwidth of our thinking. Watch out for my review of the exhibition.Thinking big - Many people I know, they don’t even dare to think big. I knew it was quite funny, that's all." (Interview with Ossian Ward of Time Out London, 2012) I was going to put up a notice saying: "I personally hand-painted all the pictures myself. On the real score about his latest controversial comment: "It was a joke I made.But now they try to teach poetry and not the craft." (Interview with Maev Kennedy, the Guardian)īryan Appleyard interviews David Hockney (Copyright owned by Bryan) On art schools today: "I used to point out, at art school you can teach the craft it's the poetry you can't teach. On why media and television distort our vision: "Power is spreading to the people…Television asks you to stay in and will sell you something instead of saying, Go out and have a look at it! ( Interview, BBC FrontRow) That's why I can't go to the theatre much anymore. I can't be that social because I can't hear that well. On losing his hearing: "I'm going deaf you see, so I'm not that social which gives you advantages. Tateshots with David Hockney (Copyright owned by Tate) On his own vanity: "I do have the vanity of an artist. And the fact that I could make a drawing of the sunrise at 6 am and at 7 am send it out to 20 people that very morning and at 8 o'clock they all liked it….They get a very fresh picture of the sunrise from me two hours earlier….If I had just a pencil and paper by my bedside, the sun wouldn't be that interesting." (Interview at BBC Click) On how fun it is to use an Ipad: "The other great new thing in here (Ipad) is the distribution of the image. Interview with David Hockney on his Painting Routine (Studio 360) I was angry at first, but you then realise that you have another subject: is it dead, is it not? The wood is always alive if you look." ( Interview with Tim Adams, the Guardian, November 1, 2009) They chopped down some of the trees I had been drawing. I mean really look, then you quickly realise we are just insects, stupid little creatures. On how to look at nature: " When you really look at nature like I have been doing…. On why painting is still a superior art form than photography: "Do you know what Edvard Munch said about photography? He said photography can never depict heaven or hell…My sister, who is just a bit older than me, she's a retired district nurse, she's just gone mad with the digital camera and computer – move anything about she doesn't worry about whether it's authentic or stuff like that – she's just making pictures." ( Interview with Jonathan Jones, the Guardian, March 4, 2004) On people calling him the greatest British living artist: "You wouldn't call Picasso an award-winning artist, would you? ( Harper's Bazaar Interview, Nov 21, 2011) My Favourite Top Ten Quotes from David Hockney Interview with David Hockney's new exhibition at the RA (Channel 4 News) Now before I visit the quasi-retrospective and write a better review of David's Yorkshire landscape paintings and Ipad drawings, I found some favourite quotes from David Hockney, which may not be as controversial as the one above, but still delivers the punch that makes you think hard about art and why Hockney at 74, is still as relevant as ever. But in general, for British art, it's all good – all publicity is good publicity especially because these artists are both English. As for when should it be considered the work of the artist or his assistant is as complicated as defining what or when something becomes art. Controversy or not, it has opened a dialogue about the role of assistants in the creative evolution of an artist. All of a sudden, we have our own version of Nadal and Rafa in the limelight of contemporary art. David Hockney: Apart from his new show at the RA called A Bigger Picture which is now stoked to be a sure-fire art blockbuster of the year, the newly crowned Greatest British Living Artist has been making huge headlines for his supposed to be a jab at Damien Hirst when he wrote " all the works were made by the artist himself, personally" in a poster for his new show.Īrt pundits clamoured for such a story to pit two superstar artists against each other.
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