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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
Painting
Faxes
Fax
Opera
Drawing
Design
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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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've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
David Hockney
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
David Hockney
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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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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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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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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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
David Hockney
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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California is always in my mind.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
David Hockney
If you are not playful you are not alive.
David Hockney
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
David Hockney
