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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
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Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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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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 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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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
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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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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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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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