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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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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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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of 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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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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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.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, 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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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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