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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.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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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.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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California is always in my mind.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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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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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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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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