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.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Jane Austen

I have no talent for certainty.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Henri Matisse

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Antonio Banderas

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.