"I might point out Turner smoked," he declared, adding it was a fairly common habit among great artists. "Monet smoked, and he died at 86. Picasso and Matisse smoked, and lived to a ripe old age. They didn't have dreary people telling them what to do."
Aye, they get you down, those dreary people ...
Those dreary people, drearily slouching around outside pubs, stinking the place up.
ReplyDeleteHockney added: "I might point out that many great men of history were opposed to women getting the vote".
Sounds heartfelt, HW, almost like eavesdropping on a personal moment.
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