The best Quotes by David Hockney

The best Quotes by David Hockney

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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Mind & Apprehension Motivation

There are enough no smoking places now.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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Smoking Funny Quotes

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

Ava Gardner

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Smoking Whiskey

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

Damien Hirst

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When I was a boy, it never occurred to me that one day I might participate at the birthday of a German Chancellor. But that was before I knew that smoking four packs of cigarettes and consuming ten Coca-Colas a day guaranteed longevity.

Henry Kissinger

Helmut Schmidt Smoking Cola

Christian: "What else is against the rules?"
Nadia: "Drinking, smoking, doing drugs..."
Christian: "...so basically all the fun stuff."

Christian Varela Expósito in Élite - Season 1 Episode 1

Alcohol Smoking Drugs

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson

Alcohol Enjoying Sex Smoking Funny Quotes

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

Naomi Campbell

Alcohol Smoking

Tobacco not only wrecks health and health systems; it’s a drain on economies and the environment.

Tedros Ghebreyesus (as Director-General of the WHO) - March 2018

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

Harmon Killebrew

Lighting stog after stog, I choke on the smoke
They tell me to quit, don't listen what I'm told
They help me forget that this world is so cold
I don't even know what I'm chasin' no more

Post Malone - Go Flex, Album: Stoney

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Liza Minnelli

Barney: "I am not a smoker. I only smoke in certain situations: Post-coital, when I'm with Germans, sometimes those two overlap, coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day the Mets are mathematically eliminated every year, and of course - wait for it - 'cause lord knows I have, pregnancy scares."
Ted: "Why are you smoking right now?"
Barney: "I'm always pre-coital, Ted."

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 11

Smoking New York Mets

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

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Art Photography Pictures

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Johannes Kepler

Mind & Apprehension Seeing Hearing & Listening Ohren

Pen, paper and books are the gunpowder of the mind.

Neil Postman

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Books Mind & Apprehension Writing

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Mind & Apprehension Head

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs

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Mind & Apprehension

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

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Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

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Courage Risk Motivation

You want to know what your neighbours think about you? Start a fight with them.

African Saying

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Neighbors are friends. Friends tell friends the truth.

Dusan Mirkovic in Downsizing

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Friendship Neighbors

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Enemies & Opponents Neighbors

You know, you should always be polite to your neighbors. You never know when you might need to borrow some sugar.

Talos in Captain Marvel

You shouldn't be so grumpy to someone who's new in the neighbourhood!

Porcupine in The Fox and the Hound

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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