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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
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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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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