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" I'm fed up with being bossed around. "
David Hockney
Fed
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Being
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" What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. "
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" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "
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" All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. "
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" I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. "
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" My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. "
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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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" Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. "
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" I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. "
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Drawing
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" It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. "
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" I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. "
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Always
How
" I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. "
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Know
People
" I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. "
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" People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. "
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" As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. "
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Keep
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" I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever. "
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More
I Think
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" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "
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