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" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "
David Hockney
Mind
You
Ahead
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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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" You must plan to be spontaneous. "
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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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" Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. "
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" The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. "
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" I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. "
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" Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. "
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" I've always felt very English. "
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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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" I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. "
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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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" I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. "
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" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "
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Time
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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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" 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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" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "
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" I live wherever I happen to be. "
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Live
Happen
" I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. "
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West
Open
" To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. "
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Me
You
" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
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" Anything simple always interests me. "
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Always
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" I'm a natural sceptic. "
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Natural
" 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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" I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. "
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Me
Because
" California is always in my mind. "
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Mind
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Always
" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "
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Act
Listening
" I value my friends. "
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Value
Friends
" A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. "
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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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