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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

~David Hockney

Topics: About British Go Paint See Something Unusual Very

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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.

~David Hockney

Topics: Because Camera Done Drawings Miss Misses Often Out Photographs Tell Them Volume Weight You I Can

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The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

~David Hockney

Topics: Enough Good Photograph Real

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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.

~David Hockney

Topics: Anything Brushes Cameras Computers However Interested Kinds Made Paint Pictures

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I'm not antisocial. I like people.

~David Hockney

Topics: Antisocial Like People

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

~David Hockney

Topics: Camera Chemical Invention Inventor Name You

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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.

~David Hockney

Topics: Able Being Believable Draw Means People Put Space Things Very Well Who

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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

~David Hockney

Topics: Austerity Grew Up 1950S 1940S

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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

~David Hockney

Topics: Dark Enlightenment Hole Leading Really Think Us I Think

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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

~David Hockney

Topics: Blow Chance Everything Given Lot Me People Up Would You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: July 9th, 1937

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