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

• 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 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 get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Home
  • Kids

• May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit towards those who have? And now, let me close by asking three hearty cheers for our brave soldiers and seamen, and their gallant and skillful commanders.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Brave

• My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Father
  • Tragedy
  • Died

• I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

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

  

  David Hockney