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In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Howard Hodgkin

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Howard Hodgkin

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Henri Matisse

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Jeffrey Tate

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Daniel Barenboim

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

Dierks Bentley

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

Damien Hirst

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

Damien Hirst

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

Donald Judd

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.

Donald Judd

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

Jam Master Jay

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Jeff Koons

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

Jack Levine

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Jack Levine

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

Norman Rockwell