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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Abstract
Painting
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Organized
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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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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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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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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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 have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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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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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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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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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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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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