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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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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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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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