David Hockney Quotes
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.
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I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
