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David Hockney: aged 74, the painter is as prolific (and perverse) as ever

On the eve of a new Royal Academy exhibition, Martin Gayford - the writer who knows him best - profiles Britain's greatest living artist.

A long time ago, David Hockney met the granddaughter of the great Russian-Jewish artist, Marc Chagall. She told Hockney that all her grandfather - then in high old age - wanted to do was sit in his studio and paint. Hockney entirely understands why that was. "Well, of course, what else would you want to do when you've done this all of your life? When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing."

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