Posted on 09/10/2019 2:17:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Famed British artist David Hockney is giving up Los Angeles after 55 years for Normandy, France, to live out the rest of his days. 'I can do twice as much work there, three times as much,' Hockney tells the Wall Street Journal of leaving the city that made him famous in the 1960s. 'I've probably not much time left and because I don't, I value it even more.' It's there in his new home, which he bought on a whim last year after seeing it for just 25 minutes, that the 82-year-old created his latest work inspired by the view from his Normandy house to be showcased this fall in Manhattan. 'I'd like to just work and paint,' he says. 'And to be able to smoke and eat in a restaurant at the same time. Thank God for Normandy. The French know how to live. They know about pleasure.'
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I wish the rest of the smokers would leave too.
Who
This open hostility towards smokers started with a reasonable request, that smoking in airplanes be limited to the last three rows, and then it snowballed to people like you wanting smokers exiled. You may have had a point at one time but you also convinced activists that this strategy was effective. So then Gays just wanted to live in peace, abortion was supposed to be safe, legal and rare, you get the idea. Now they are saying red hats cause anxiety. So what's next for Trump supporters? I'm sure whatever it is it will sound like a reasonable request.
Good, go stink up someone else’s breathing space. Smokers think it’s freedom to smoke where and how you want, at the expense of the ‘freedom’ of a non-smoker to breath clean air and not stink. Ya’ll smokers stink!
I remember the last 3 smoking rows on airplanes. Once on a flight I was seated back there, I objected, and the whole flight became non smoking. WINNING
He’s one of my favorite living painters - though it’s his landscapes I like best.
I thought that France had prohibited smoking in most food venues as well??
They have signs up in restaurants and no one obeys them. The French have a nice anti-government side to their nature - just check out those yellow jacket folks.
I don’t blame Hockney. He’s a good artist, he’s old and rich, he should live where he wants and eat, drink and smoke like a chimney if he wants.
I abhor smoke nazis.
good for him. It’s not against the law to smoke in the US but with all the restrictions, you’d think it was.
“The French know how to live. They know about pleasure.”
I wonder how much “pleasure” he’ll experience when puking up his guts after chemo treatments.
why should i or others be subjected to smelling smoke or sitting next to a person for hours on a plane who just smoked and having to breath that smell?
the whole rest ofyour comment is not the same. gays, people choosing to kill babies, etc does not effect my personal health or comfort as directly as smoke or smell of it does. That invades my personal being. The others don’t do so.
It took him 55 years to realize he should get out of LA! Poor old guy.
I remember during the time smoking bans were rolling out around the country, it was pretty common to see folks harassing smokers on the street.
Now they go after folks wearing MAGA hats.
I abhored having to use ALL my leave time — and more — with bronchitis and pneumonia as a result of my smoking co-workers. Using those days to take an actual vacation would’ve been nice ...
Sorry, no such thing as second-hand smoke. That’s a put-up job by the smoke nazis.
Very well stated!
I’m retired, I rarely leave my house, I smoke my daily cigar in peace.
My husband is also a cigar smoker. We go to some really nice cigar bars here where the ladies sip single-malt scotch while the guys light up and play dominoes. I allow smoking in my home. I have no health issues from “second-hand smoke” and I grew up with a father who smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes.
Right..
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