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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
Quote by -David Hockney
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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 stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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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.
Quote by -David Hockney
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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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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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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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I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
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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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Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
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People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
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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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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
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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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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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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 go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
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