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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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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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