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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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
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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
Claustrophobic
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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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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
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