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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.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
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Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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 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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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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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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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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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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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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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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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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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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