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"We grow small trying to be great." — David Hockney
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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus." — David Hockney
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist." — David Hockney
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"Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny." — David Hockney
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"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light." — David Hockney
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"It's really about liberty. I'm very concerned about a growing intolerance and bossiness throughout society. Pubs are not health clubs." — David Hockney
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"Anything simple always interests me." — David Hockney
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"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed." — David Hockney
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"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work." — David Hockney
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"No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first." — David Hockney
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"When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn't sound as good as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. And it was my title, not hers, anyway." — David Hockney
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"You destroy bohemia." — David Hockney
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"Smoking calms me down. It?s enjoyable. I don?t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life." — David Hockney
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"Smoking, ... calms me down. And it's enjoyable. A little bit of what you fancy does you good. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. These are decisions you make yourself, not government." — David Hockney
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"There are enough no smoking places now." — David Hockney
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"Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty." — David Hockney
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"Pubs aren't health clubs. To me, we're creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad." — David Hockney
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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." — David Hockney
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"Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different." — David Hockney
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"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it" — David Hockney
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"the great strength is that the art worked outside of galleries and museums. It did not need them. (They need it.)" — David Hockney
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