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If you are not playful you are not alive.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Playful
Alive
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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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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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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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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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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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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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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
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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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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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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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