Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

David Hockney

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

David Hockney

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

David Hockney

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

David Hockney

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

David Hockney

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

David Hockney

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

David Hockney

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

David Duchovny

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

Arthur Rubinstein

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

Antonin Artaud

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

Frederic Bastiat

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Diablo Cody

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

Diablo Cody

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

Diana Gabaldon

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Dennis Miller

If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great.

Alain de Botton

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

Charles Barkley

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Art Spiegelman

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

C. S. Lewis

Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

Diane von Furstenberg

I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

David Sedaris

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

David Ruffin

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Diane Abbott

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

ASAP Rocky

I wanted to model when I was younger.