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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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Crags
Yorkshire
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I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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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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