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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
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Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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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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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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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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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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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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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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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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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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