"I grew up in austerity in the 1940s…" — David Hockney
"I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s."
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170 Quotes by David Hockney
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a…
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a…
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Faces are the most interesting things we see
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for…
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not…
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
— Chanakya
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The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for…
— George Monbiot
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If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next…
— Len McCluskey
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HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy.…
— Nigel Farage
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
— Unknown Author
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I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
— Bill Gross
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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