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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
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Pictures
Picture
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Technology
Makes
Anything
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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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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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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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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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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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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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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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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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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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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