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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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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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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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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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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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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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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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