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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
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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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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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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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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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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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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
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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 had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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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 really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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