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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?
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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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'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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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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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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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 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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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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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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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