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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

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 always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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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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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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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