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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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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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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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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 think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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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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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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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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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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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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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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