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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
Contemporary
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Art
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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 have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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