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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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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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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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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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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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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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Anything simple always interests me.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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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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