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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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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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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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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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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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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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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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California is always in my mind.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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