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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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