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" I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. "
David Hockney
Been
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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'm not antisocial. I like people. "
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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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" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "
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" Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. "
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" I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. "
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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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" All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. "
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" Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it. "
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" I'm a natural sceptic. "
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Natural
" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "
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" I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. "
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Beautiful
Light
Morning
" 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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Good
You
Work
" Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. "
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Eyes
Things
" Easel painting means small painting. "
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Means
Small
Painting
" Tragedy is a literary concept. "
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Concept
Tragedy
Literary
" We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. "
David Hockney
See
Age
Live
" 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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Thought
Humanity
Service
" I prefer living in color. "
David Hockney
Living
Color
Prefer
" All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. "
David Hockney
Photography
Interested
Painters
" Britain is a very small country with a very large press. "
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Very
Small
Press
" There are enough no smoking places now. "
David Hockney
Now
Smoking
Places
" I value my friends. "
David Hockney
Value
Friends
" My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. "
David Hockney
Doing
Worry
Nothing
" 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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Abstract
Kind
Mean
" 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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Garden
Point
Will
" 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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Look
You
Work
" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "
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Old
Sixteen
School
" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "
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Makes
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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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Skill
Energy