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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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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 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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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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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 do believe that painting can change the world.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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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 made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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