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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.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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?
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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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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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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