David Hockney Quotes
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
Quotes to Explore
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.
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I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.
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I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
