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All painting, no matter what you're painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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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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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
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The reason you start painting yourself…is that you are a model; a cheap model. I mean you've always got yourself!
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
David Hockney
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July 9, 1937
(age 87)
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