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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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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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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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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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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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