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" To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. "
David Hockney
Look
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You
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" Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? "
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" We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. "
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" I'm fed up with being bossed around. "
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" I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. "
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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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" I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. "
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" I've always felt very English. "
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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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" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "
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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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" Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. "
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" East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. "
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" I'm not antisocial. I like people. "
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" I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. "
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" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
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" The moment rules over everything. "
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" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. "
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" People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. "
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" I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. "
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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. "
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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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" I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. "
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" Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. "
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" I value my friends. "
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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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" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "
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