The best Quotes by David Hockney

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

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."

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."

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.

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

Art is a way of survival.

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

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

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

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

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

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

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

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

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

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

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

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

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

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

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

Neighbors are friends. Friends tell friends the truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.