David Hockney Quotes

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

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• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • House
  • Hate
  • Day

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

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

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Done
  • Lies
  • Trump

• There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Good
  • Old
  • Days

• It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Black
  • Always
  • Strength

• I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Important

• One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Singing
  • Mistakes
  • Gifts

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• He's a serious mister Shake his hand and he'll twist your arm. With Monopoly money We'll be buying the funny farm. So I'll do flips, and get paid in chips From a diamond as big as the Ritz - Then I'm calling it quits.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Hand

• One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Literature
  • Bible

• I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

  

  Donna Mills
  • People
  • Life
  • Cutting

• I will never have anything that is remotely technical near my bath time. I completely zone out and stare up at the ceiling. For me, it's like a form of meditation. It's a time where I can just actually turn off.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Meditation

• I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Good

• Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mother

• At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Live
  • Night
  • Beginning

• My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all - specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community - great schools, public safety, etc.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Great
  • Music
  • Women

• I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Passion

• During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Real
  • Night
  • Giving

• I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Work
  • Family

• A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Guilt
  • Vengeance

• Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Song
  • Change
  • Mountain

• Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

  

  David Hockney