David Hockney Quotes

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

David Hockney

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• No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Company
  • Leave
  • Citizen

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dark

• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Always

• When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • You
  • Stop
  • Where

• I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

  

  Ina Garten
  • May
  • Follow
  • Turn

• I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Down

• I don't order laws, I propose them.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Order
  • Laws
  • Them

• Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Now
  • Saying

• My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Family
  • Me

• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • History
  • Science
  • Human

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Taken

• I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Water
  • Touring
  • Salt

• I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Most

• All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

  

  Edie Falco

• Open platforms and experimental amateurs … eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. … Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Good
  • Great
  • Technology

• Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • Moving

• Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • City
  • Owl

• The discussions are at a formative stage and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome.

  

  Jacquie O'Sullivan Bananarama
  • Outcome
  • Discussions
  • Speculate

• I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.

  

  Alix Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Explore

• Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Respect
  • Nation
  • Come

• The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

  

  David Hockney