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" Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. "
David Hockney
You
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Things
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" When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' "
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" I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. "
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" I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. "
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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 think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. "
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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'm not antisocial. I like people. "
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" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "
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" My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. "
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" I live wherever I happen to be. "
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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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" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 don't value prizes of any sort. "
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" But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. "
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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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