David Hockney Quotes

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Year
  • Graduation

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Responsibility
  • Need
  • Take

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Rude

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Thing

• That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Man
  • Me
  • Fighter

• I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Look
  • Open

• I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • You
  • Care
  • News

• Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I think 'The Shining' is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Movies

• I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Think
  • Comfortable

• We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Ignore

• We are not going to continue until we hear the fucking roof rattle.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Passion
  • Habit
  • Thug

• I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
  • Different
  • Positive

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

  

  James Stewart
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Heaven

• I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I'm not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Mind

• I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

  

  David Hockney