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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
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Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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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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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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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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Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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