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Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course n

Shadows sometimes people dont 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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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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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. – David Hockney

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. – George Jean Nathan

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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