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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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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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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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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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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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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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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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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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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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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'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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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'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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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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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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