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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
Design
Painting
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Fax
Opera
Drawing

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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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Water colours are wet colours in water.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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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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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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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 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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...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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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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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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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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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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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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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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