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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
Unless
Design
Move
Creative
Moving
Art
Doe
Good
Bus

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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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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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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'm fed up with being bossed around.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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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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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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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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