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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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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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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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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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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 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 made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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California is always in my mind.
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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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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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