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People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. -

People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – David Hockney

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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didnt quite have perhaps the drive or, I dont know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. – David Hockney

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What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldnt be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. – David Hockney

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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. – Vidal Sassoon

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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle

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Its high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbells soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. – Camille Paglia

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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