“I have the vanity of an artist, I want my work to be seen, but I don’t have to be seen.”
David Hockney
Now the world’s most expensive painting by a living artist, David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for $90.3 million from the Christie’s auction house.
‘The idea of painting two figures in different styles appealed so much that I began the painting immediately.’
“I live in the now so the past is something you’ll have to dig up.”
— David Hockney, the British artist who’s become known as the ‘the painter of Southern California’
“Artists aren’t hedonists. They’re workers.” Hockey’s persistence echoes Japan’s Hokusai who also believed the best work was yet to come.
You can take breaks but real artists never stop noticing. “Remember,” says Hockney. “Our eyes never stay still. If your eyes are still, you’re dead.”