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It takes a long time to make it simple.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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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 vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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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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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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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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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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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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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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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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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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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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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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