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You must plan to be spontaneous.

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
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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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 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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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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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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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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