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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
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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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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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
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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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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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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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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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