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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
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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 would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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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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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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California is always in my mind.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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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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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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