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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
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Painter
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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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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