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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
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
Bossed
Feds
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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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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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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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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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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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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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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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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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