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David Hockney Quotes

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Name Camera You Invention Chemical

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Forgiveness Acceptance Tolerance

Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

Jennifer Coolidge

Hero Actor More Anything Than Type

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

Matthew Simpson

Men Brave Loved Country True Elder

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Place Paris Creation Matter Whatever

I think any actor, if they had the choice, would opt for challenging roles that test their capabilities.

Think Choice Test Actor Would Roles

The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Perspective World Impossible You Say

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

History Believe Better Born Whatever

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

I Can Vote Democrats Democrat Fact

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

Myself Creative People Appreciate

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I Am Me Goal Fantasy May Communist

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Equality Inequality Worst Try Equal

David Mamet gives me great heart. When I ask myself, 'I don't know if I can do this again,' Mamet would say, 'Oh yes, you can.'

Heart Great Myself Me You I Can

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