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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?

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
Photography
Looking
Wrong
Reality
Littles
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Much
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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 was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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Anything simple always interests me.
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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 think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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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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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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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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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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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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