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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
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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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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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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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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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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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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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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