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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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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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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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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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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