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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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