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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
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Creative
Moving
Art
Doe
Good
Bus
Unless
Design
Move

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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
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In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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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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