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" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "
David Hockney
Another
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Just
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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 was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. "
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" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. "
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" The moment rules over everything. "
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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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" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "
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" I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. "
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" I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. "
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" Britain is a very small country with a very large press. "
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" I'm not antisocial. I like people. "
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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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" Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? "
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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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Thinking
" Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. "
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Smoking
My Life
" California is always in my mind. "
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California
Always
" I'm a natural sceptic. "
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Natural
" Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. "
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Shadows
Art
People
" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "
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Poetry
Craft
You
" Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. "
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You
Work
" I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. "
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Like
Where
Paint
" I'm a bit of a propagandist. "
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Bit
" It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. "
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See
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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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Painting
Space
Trees
" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
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Design
Bus
Art
" Spring is very energising to me. "
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Spring
Very
Me
" I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. "
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Point
Will
" West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. "
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" I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. "
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Austerity
" I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. "
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