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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

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
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Anything
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour 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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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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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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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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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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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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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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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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