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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.


David Hockney


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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


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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


#being #believable #draw #means #people

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.


David Hockney


#could #course #digital #had #meaning

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.


David Hockney


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Easel painting means small painting.


David Hockney


#painting #small

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.


David Hockney


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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.


David Hockney


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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.


David Hockney


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Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.


David Hockney


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