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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
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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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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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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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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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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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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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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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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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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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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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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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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