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David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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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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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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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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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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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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