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" Like people, trees are all individuals. "
David Hockney
People
Trees
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" California is always in my mind. "
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" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "
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" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
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" When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. "
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" Tragedy is a literary concept. "
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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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" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "
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" Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' "
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" The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. "
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" In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. "
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" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "
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" I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. "
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" The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. "
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" I don't value prizes of any sort. "
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" It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. "
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" You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. "
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" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
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" My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. "
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" A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. "
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" There are enough no smoking places now. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "
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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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" All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. "
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