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" Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. "

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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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" California is always in my mind. "

" I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. "

" Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. "

" 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. "

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

" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "

" 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. "

" 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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" You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. "

" What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. "

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

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

David Hockney

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" I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. "

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

" You must plan to be spontaneous. "

" I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. "

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

" In my old age, I'll be in L.A. "

" 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. "

" Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! "

" 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. "

David Hockney

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" I'm a bit of a propagandist. "

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" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. "

" I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever. "

David Hockney

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

" But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. "