We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
David HockneyTime is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
David HockneyAnd then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
David Hockney