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Famous David Hockney Quotes
“There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.”
Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”
“People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.”
“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.”
“I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.”
Source: True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney
“I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.”
“All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.”
Source: David Hockney
“All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?”