David Hockney Quotes

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

David Hockney

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
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• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
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• It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

  

  Jack Herer
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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
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• I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

  

  Lance Ito
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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  

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• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
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• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
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• There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

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• Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.

  

  Walt Kelly
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• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  

  Peter Abelard
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• I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book! William Shakespeare

  

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• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  

  David Hockney
  • Done
  • Space
  • Picture