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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
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
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Photographer
Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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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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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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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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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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