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" Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. "
David Hockney
Paint
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" I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. "
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" I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever. "
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" Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. "
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" 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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" The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. "
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" Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? "
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" I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. "
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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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" East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. "
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" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
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" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "
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" I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. "
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" You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. "
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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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" It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. "
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" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "
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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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" I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. "
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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. "
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" Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. "
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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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" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "
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" Easel painting means small painting. "
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" I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. "
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" I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. "
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