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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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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'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
David Hockney
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.
David Hockney
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
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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 film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
David Hockney
It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
David Hockney
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
David Hockney
