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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change.
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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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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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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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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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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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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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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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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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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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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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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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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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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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