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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
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Draftsperson
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Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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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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If you like music you like silence actually.
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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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