David Hockney Quotes

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 9, 1937

Topics

ArtExperiencePeopleThoughtYou

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.

Jillian Michaels

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There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

Anand Giridharadas

SayHeatOfficeAlwaysActBeing

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

Sophie Hannah

WriteOnlyLikeAgatha Christie

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

Tua Tagovailoa

FaithPeopleMeGivingLovingSay

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

Michael Leunig

CreativeWorldArtistBadYoung

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Jon Runyan

LifeSportsStepMeTeamEgo

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

DeForest Soaries

PowerPeopleLittleStayVeryThem

I never really got into 'The Munsters' that much, but there was one aspect that was compelling. That was Marilyn. She was the only normal one among this group of creatures.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

GroupNeverSheNormalGotOnly

When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

Pete Wentz

TimeDayMeGreenWeirdWant

Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals - this is what fueled the Arab Spring.

Tyler Cowen

MenSpringYoungMostYoung Men

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Thomas Carlyle

ImaginationUnderstandingMatterPoor

I loved the process of writing.

Nora Roberts

WritingProcessLoved

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