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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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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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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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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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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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