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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
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Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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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 moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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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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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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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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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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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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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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