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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
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Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
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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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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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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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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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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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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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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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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
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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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