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

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• 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

• It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.

  

  Nilsson
  • Songwriting
  • Else
  • Somewhere

• Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Petty

• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work

• I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

  

  John Mackey
  • Time
  • College

• Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Helping
  • Hours

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

  

  David Hockney