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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
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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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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.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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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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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've realized that I can do performances.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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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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