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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
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