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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. "

David Hockney

Done

Camera

I Can

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" We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. "

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" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "

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" Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. "

" I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. "

" 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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" When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. "

" I've realized that I can do performances. "

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" And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. "

" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "

" Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. "

" 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've always felt very English. "

" West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. "

" I value my friends. "

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Friends

" I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. "

" It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. "

" I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. "

" Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. "

" 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!' "

" Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. "

" 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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" My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. "