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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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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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 don't value prizes of any sort.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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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There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.
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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 mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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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 value my friends.
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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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There are enough no smoking places now.
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said 'No Sketching.' How obnoxious! I said, 'How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?'
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Interviewer: Love is certainly at the center of tolerance. They're intertwined, in a certain way. It helps you appreciate difference.Hockney: Yes. And that's probably why I do portraits. Everybody's different; they look different, and are different. Maybe deep, deep down we're all the same. But on the surface we seem to be different, don't we?
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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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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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