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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
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Even
Colour
Talk
Actually
Difficult
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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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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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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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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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