Concept Quote by David Hockney Download Open image “Tragedy is a literary concept.” — David Hockney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concept Literary Tragedy
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude...Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner)… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept… — Sara Davies Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
