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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Scenographer
Sculptor
Bradford
Yorkshire
Drawing
Painting
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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California is always in my mind.
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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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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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