English - Artist | July 9, 1937 -
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
David Hockney
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
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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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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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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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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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