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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
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Bossed
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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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In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
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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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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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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 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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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