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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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Bradford
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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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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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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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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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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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