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

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• 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

• Everything outside doesn't matter when I'm on the court; it's just me and nothing else. Family problems, school, what happened to my father, all the stress goes away.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Family
  • School
  • Father

• 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 character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • Important
  • Character
  • Strong

• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

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

  

  David Hockney