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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
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Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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