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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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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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Water colours are wet colours in water.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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