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I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
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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.
David Hockney
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I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
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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.
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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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I'm a natural sceptic.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
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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.
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I'm not antisocial. I like people.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
David Hockney -
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
David Hockney -
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.
David Hockney -
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
David Hockney -
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
David Hockney -
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
David Hockney -
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney -
The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.
David Hockney -
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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