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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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Doe
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Believe
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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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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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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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I've realized that I can do performances.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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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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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.
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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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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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