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Wells Quotes by David Hockney
- I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
- Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only…
- Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood
- People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's…
- I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look…
- With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story…
- Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
- Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
- And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level,…
- But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes…
- I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will…
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- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong