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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Lithographer
Painter
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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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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California is always in my mind.
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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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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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