"Listening is a positive act: you have to……" — David Hockney

"Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it."

— David Hockney

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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.
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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