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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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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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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
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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 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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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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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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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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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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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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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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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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