David Hockney Quotes
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
David Hockney
Quotes to Explore
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
Natalie Imbruglia
I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
Gabriella Wilde
Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
Becky Lynch
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams
I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
Mark Kurlansky
Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.
Chuck Zito
I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
Mads Mikkelsen
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Amy Poehler
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
David Hockney
