David Hockney Quotes
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I can always go back to education.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.
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I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
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I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
