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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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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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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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California is always in my mind.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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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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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 takes a long time to make it simple.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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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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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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