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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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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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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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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'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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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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