David Hockney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
-
I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
-
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
-
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
-
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
-
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
-
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
-
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
-
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
-
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
-
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
-
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
-
I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
-
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
-
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
-
I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
-
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
I write about families. That is who we are.
-
Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.
-
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
-
There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.
-
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
-
I value my friends.
