"I have always believed that art should be……" — David Hockney
"I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair."
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170 Quotes by David Hockney
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
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