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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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