“perhaps you have to be a bit selfish to be artist”- hockney’s mother (d)
never believe what an artist says… only what they do”- walter sickert, quoted by hockney
” do you have a feeling that it’s [the wood] empty?
“no”
“because it’s about sombody looking at it”- hockney and other
“are there any landscapes that are empty?”- unknown
“do we know what an empty room looks like?”- hockney
” you need three things to be an artist- your eyes, your hands and your heart, only two, won’t do”- unknown
“you don’t retire from doing this, you just do it until you fall over”- hockney
“its always now, its the now that is eternal actually”- hockney
“we always see with memory”- hockney
“in your head you can go anywhere, didn’t you know that? you can even go to the very edges of the universe… you can’t get there on the bus”-hockney
“don’t think to much of the morrow. isn’t that a biblical injunction?”- hockney
“Genius”- beth walls
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, lucien freud 
