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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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Draftsperson
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
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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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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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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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