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

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Anything simple always interests me.
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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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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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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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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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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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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
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I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.
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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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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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