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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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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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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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...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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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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California is always in my mind.
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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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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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