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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Draftsperson
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Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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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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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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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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California is always in my mind.
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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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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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