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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
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Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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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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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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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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 believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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Water colours are wet colours in water.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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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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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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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 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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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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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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The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.
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