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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.

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
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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I've realized that I can do performances.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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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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