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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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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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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I've been racketeered on.
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I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
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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.
