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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 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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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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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I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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