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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

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
Landscape
Thrill
Enjoyment

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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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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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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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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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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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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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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
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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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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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