Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
From David Hockney
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
I don't value prizes of any sort.
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