The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as
they explore the nature of creativity. David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and
widely loved but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this
now classic book filled with anecdote insight passion and wit Hockney reveals the fruits of
his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional
world on a flat surface. Compiled from a decade and a half of conversations with art critic
Martin Gayford it reflects a period in which Hockney relocated from Los Angeles to his native
East Yorkshire. Their exchanges communicate the immense delight and inspiration that Hockney
finds in the changing seasons and natural splendours of this sparsely inhabited corner of
England - a delight that is in the words of Margaret Drabble 'an invitation to us all to look
better see better enjoy more'.
