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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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When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

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