David Hockney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
-
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
-
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
-
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
-
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
-
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
-
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
-
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
-
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.
-
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
-
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
-
We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
-
I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
-
To go back means defeat.
-
Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
-
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
-
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
-
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
-
At times, my confidence is rock bottom, although I try for it to be sky high, thanks to the people that are always there with me and support me.
-
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
-
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
-
Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.
-
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
-
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
