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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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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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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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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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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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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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