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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
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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 feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for 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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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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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 go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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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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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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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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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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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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