"I'm not going to stop painting just to…" — David Hockney

"I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders."

— David Hockney

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170 Quotes by David Hockney

David Hockney has 170 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a…
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a…
Faces are the most interesting things we see
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for…
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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