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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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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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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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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 made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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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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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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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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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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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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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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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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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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