English - Artist | July 9, 1937 -
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney
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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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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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I'm not antisocial. I like people.
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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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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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I live wherever I happen to be.
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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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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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