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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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Streets

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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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