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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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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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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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Water colours are wet colours in water.
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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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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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