David Hockney 'working harder than ever'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30117723

David Hockney 'working harder than ever'

Artist David Hockney, 77, has told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he is working harder than ever from his home in Los Angeles.

Speaking to broadcaster James Naughtie, Bradford-born Hockney said he spends more time painting now as his deafness has curtailed his social life.

"I work as hard, even harder now," he said. "I just work all the time. I don't go out from here - I'm too deaf.

"I don't really have much of a social life and I don't really mind much."

Hockney said he is "perfectly happy", despite leaving his home rarely. "I go out to the dentist, the doctor's, the bookshop and the marijuana store," he went on. "But that's it."

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"Drawing is 50,000 years old. You don't give it up just because a photograph comes along. Photographs aren't good enough."

Maybe not, but they're a damn sight better than his daubs.
Funnily enough, hunting and gathering is even older than 50,000 years. But even 12,000 years ago, they found that farming was an improvement. Healing by witchcraft is pretty old. But I think I'll give it a miss now. I could go on. And on. And on......

Having said that, if the mugs will pay big money for crap, then it certainly makes sense to keep churning it out.

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"Drawing is 50,000 years old. You don't give it up just because a photograph comes along. Photographs aren't good enough."

Maybe not, but they're a damn sight better than his daubs.
Funnily enough, hunting and gathering is even older than 50,000 years. But even 12,000 years ago, they found that farming was an improvement. Healing by witchcraft is pretty old. But I think I'll give it a miss now. I could go on. And on. And on......

Having said that, if the mugs will pay big money for crap, then it certainly makes sense to keep churning it out.

His early work was good. Something changed after his patch with swimming pools...everything went too dilute for my taste.

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Paintings are collectors items. Like stamps.

I've never seen one that I would give more than twenty quid for just for intrinsic worth.

But I have paid loads more than that for a pen. It's the collector bug gone mad.