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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

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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
Drawing
Painting
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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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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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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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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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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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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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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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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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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 have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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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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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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