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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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 art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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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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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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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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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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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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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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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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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
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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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