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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
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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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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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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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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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