David Hockney Quotes

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

David Hockney

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• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  

  Beck
  • Interesting
  • You
  • Find

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Morning

• I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Look
  • Said

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Heart
  • Course
  • Proclamation

• I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Men
  • Think
  • Impossible

• Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Know
  • Easy

• I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Born
  • Grandparents

• Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Wrong

• Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Success
  • Tree

• Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Universe
  • Marriage
  • Kiss

• There are to whom each symbol is a mask; The life of love is a mysterious task; They want no answer, for they would not ask.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Mysterious

• I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Job
  • Guy
  • House

• I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Great
  • Water
  • Boat

• Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

  

  Nick Bostrom
  • Child
  • Murder
  • Mother Nature

• Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Library

• I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

  

  David Hockney