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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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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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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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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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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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