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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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
Yorkshire
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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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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'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
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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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
David Hockney
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
David Hockney
