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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
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Lithographer
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Bradford
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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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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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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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,'
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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