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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.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
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Bradford
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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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 really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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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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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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