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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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Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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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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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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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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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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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 have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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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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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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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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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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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