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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
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Draftsperson
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Yorkshire
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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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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I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
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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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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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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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California is always in my mind.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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