Hockney Paintings Quotes & Sayings

Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox. — Manohla Dargis

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully. — Confucius

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? — David Hockney

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings. — David Hockney

In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never
I will never
leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals. — Eric Holder

Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty. — Janice Erlbaum

That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter. — Ryan Lochte

They stuffed the air between my clothes and me with ice-cubes from my neck to my ankles, and whenever the ice melted, they put in new, hard ice cubes. Moreover, every once in a while, one of the guards smashed me, most of the time in the face. The ice served both for the pain and for wiping out the bruises I had from that afternoon. Everything seemed to be perfectly prepared. People from cold regions might not understand the extent of the pain when ice-cubes get stuck on your body. Historically, kings during medieval and pre-medieval times used this method to let the victim slowly die. The other method, of hitting the victim while blindfolded in inconsistent intervals, was used by the Nazis during World War II. There is nothing more terrorizing than making somebody expect a smash every single heartbeat. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. — Peter Doig

Keep a clear picture of your dreams and the outcome you seek. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others. — Rosa Parks

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I. — Tom Wolfe

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

Rommel hesitated and finally made his decision. "I believe," he said to Stroelin, "it is my duty to come to the rescue of Germany." At this meeting and at all subsequent ones which Rommel had with the plotters, he opposed assassinating Hitler - not on moral but on practical grounds. To kill the dictator, he argued, would be to make a martyr of him. He insisted that Hitler be arrested by the Army and haled before a German court for crimes against his own people and those of the occupied lands.12 — William L. Shirer

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does? — Lois Greiman

We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice. — Dan Millman