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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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“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. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.”
― A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
― A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
“It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.”
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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty,you know you're an artist.”
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“It's the very process of looking at something that makes it beautiful.”
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“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You have to look and to work. That’s exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That’s what you need.”
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“Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We'll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.”
― Spring Cannot Be Cancelled
― Spring Cannot Be Cancelled
“I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.”
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