Major Influence

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."
- David Hockney

Hockney at the MET

"Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make."
- David Hockney

electric shock

David Hockney [born 1937] by Lucian Freud [born 1922], who has favored longer sessions of several months to capture his subjects. "He's looking, looking. Peering, peering. Coming closer."