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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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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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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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