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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
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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Looking
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Beautiful
Thing
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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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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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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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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 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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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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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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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
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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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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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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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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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