David Hockney Interview: Joie de Vivre Keeps You Going

In this interview, 74-year old David Hockney defends smoking and talks about how important the joy of life is to your health and your creativity as an artist.
British artist David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most important contemporary artists living today. In this video he talks about how losing his hearing makes him see space clearer, about experiencing space in New York, and about Claude Monet being a smoker all his life, setting yourself major tasks at an advanced age and doing fine as a smoker. How ‘joie de vivre’ keeps you vital.
David Hockney was interviewed by Christian Lund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, March 2011 in connection to the ’Me Draw On Ipad’ exhibition.
Produced by: Martin Kogi and Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Supported by Nordea-fonden

[@Bambuswaldninja]

lack of joie de vivre is a killer, they should put it on signs, tell it to everybody, even children. this is just gold. david hockney is a fantastic person.

[@Sevrmark]

Thank you for this series of interviews

[@mesmabelsare]

What a fantastic sense of humour! ♥️

[@michastrachowski7690]

I love this guy! Hopefully, he will live forever, or, at least the next 100 years.

[@martinmilner14]

When was the last time you heard an artist cite Heisenberg ( of uncertainty principle fame). The width and depths of Hockney's thinking amazes me.

[@sborg6779]

Cheers

[@farouk6564]

David Hockney is awesome!

[@jamesallison4875]

Amen

[@smihca]

Love it

[@ytubeanon]

a lack of joie de vivre is why the birth rate has gone down and suicides have gone up, save us A.I.

[@Jack-bs6zb]

The audience, if there was one, were not demonstrative at all.