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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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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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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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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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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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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