David Hockney Quotes
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
Quotes to Explore
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.
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I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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Every album we've recorded has been done differently, but with Absolution, there was something within the band that made us feel a lot closer...
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One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
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You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
