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California is always in my mind.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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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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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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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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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
David Hockney
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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