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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Draftsperson
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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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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I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
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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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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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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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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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