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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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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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