» “Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like a pretty face. They don’t complain the face is too pretty, too beautiful and want something interesting. You go for the beautiful before the interesting. I don’t really know what interesting means.”

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“Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like a pretty face. They don’t complain the face is too pretty, too beautiful and want something interesting. You go for the beautiful before the interesting. I don’t really know what interesting means.”

— artist David Hockney, in conversation with artist Larry Rivers

Which artwork in this gallery is interesting but not beautiful to you? Beautiful but not interesting? Why?

Source: “Beautiful or Interesting,” Art and Literature 2

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