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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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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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.
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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.
