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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
David Hockney
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney
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Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
David Hockney
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
David Hockney
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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
David Hockney
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
David Hockney
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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.
David Hockney
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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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