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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
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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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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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
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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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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
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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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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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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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