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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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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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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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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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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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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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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