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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
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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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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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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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 think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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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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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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