David Hockney Quotes
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.
Nastassja Kinski
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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
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Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Goodness Gracious The Paper! Where the Cash at? Where the Stash at?
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Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
