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Anything simple always interests me.

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
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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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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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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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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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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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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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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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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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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'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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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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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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