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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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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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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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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 never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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