David Hockney Quotes
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
David Hockney
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.
Walter Pater
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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.
Imtiaz Ali
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.
Carlisle Floyd
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
Natalie Martinez
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My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.
John Catsimatidis
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Don McLean
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Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.
Link Wray
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. 'They are tall,' said he, 'and comely, but bear no fruit.'
Plutarch
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
David Hockney
