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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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Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
Drawing
Painting
Years
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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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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 avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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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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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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