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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

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
Faxes
Fax
Opera
Drawing
Design
Painting

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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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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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