This article explores the montage-style artworks created by Virginia Woolf and David Hockney, and attempts to understand each of their perspectives and visions that lie beyond the surfaces of the texts. Although Woolf and Hockney belong to different time periods, they share the extraordinary qualities as aesthetes who consider beauty and pleasure to be the highest value for art and life. Woolf and Hockney did not lose their passion for observing and exploring beautiful things in the world, even in the midst of various historical events such as World War I/II and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This admiration for beauty led them to the creation of montage artworks. Woolf invented montage-style novels through interacting with modernist artists during the early 20th century. Meanwhile, Hockney has adopted innovative montage styles through using digital mediums: he began creating photo montages in the early 1980s by assembling multiple Polaroid photos or prints into a single composite image, and later introduced another form of montage works such as multi-canvas paintings, which consist of multiple canvases arranged side by side, creating a unified image across the separate panels. The focus of this paper falls on examining the relationship between the montage forms and their artistic p...