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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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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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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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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?
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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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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I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
David Hockney
