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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

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
Clears
Lungs
Laugh
Laughing

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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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California is always in my mind.
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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