Quote by David Hockney
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to

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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I go and see anything thats visually new, any technology thats about picture-making. The technology wont make the pictures different, but someone using it will. – 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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The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. – Jerry Saltz

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller

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