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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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
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Lungs
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Laughing
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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 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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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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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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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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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 only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
David Hockney
Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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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.
David Hockney
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
David Hockney
I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
David Hockney
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
David Hockney
