David Hockney Quotes

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

David Hockney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MomentThoughtAmericaPlaceLondon

I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.

Jesse Kellerman

ParentsWritingThinkTalkEveryone

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Jerry Saltz

MemoriesArtFlowersDieBloomLast

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

John Lewis

TodayPathKingMeBookReading

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Sojourner Truth

WomenGreatMenYouBadWill

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

Tommy Franks

CareRememberSoldierDaysTaken

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

Robert Wilson

MusicArchitectureDramaClassic

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Monica Lewinsky

KindnessTrustHumorIntelligenceMe

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Mitch Kapor

BusinessBoyOldInsideAnarchy

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Diane Lane

RelationshipKnowKindComfortable

Change never bothers me, not really.

Dennis Farina

ChangeMeNeverReallyBothers

I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.

Doug Ducey

HomeAloneTimePeopleEnjoyRun

The gratification you feel from making tangible progress while running is just about unparalleled, so I understand why people love it. But it's also hard, grueling work. Those feel-good benefits have to be earned four to five times a week.

Chip Gaines

WorkLoveProgressPeopleWeekYou

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