DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

‘Portraits aren’t just made up of drawing, they are made up of other insights as well. Celia is one of the few girls I knew really well. I’ve drawn her so many times and knowing her makes it always slightly different. I don’t bother about getting the likeness in her face because I know it so well. She has many faces and I think if you looked through all the drawings I’ve done of her, you’d see that they don’t look alike…’

(D. Hockney, quoted in D. Hockney and E. Pillsbury, David Hockney: Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink, London 1978, n.p.)