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You must plan to be spontaneous.

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 moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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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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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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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 never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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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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