It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- David Hockney, (Jul 9 1937-____), English artist, painter, draftsman, printmaker; His early success as a pop artist came with a set of satirical etchings: The Rake's Proress; he is master of the double portrait.