Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes...
DAVID HOCKNEY I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
DAVID HOCKNEY If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job t...
DAVID HOCKNEY Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a c...
DAVID HOCKNEY Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
DAVID HOCKNEY Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
DAVID HOCKNEY Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
DAVID HOCKNEY The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ...
DAVID HOCKNEY Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, ...
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see whe...
DAVID HOCKNEY Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a co...
DAVID HOCKNEY Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
DAVID HOCKNEY I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
DAVID HOCKNEY All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
DAVID HOCKNEY I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the ...
DAVID HOCKNEY Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing...
DAVID HOCKNEY Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first...
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm not antisocial. I like people.
DAVID HOCKNEY I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph tak...
DAVID HOCKNEY I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's ...
DAVID HOCKNEY As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the pr...
DAVID HOCKNEY It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
DAVID HOCKNEY The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
DAVID HOCKNEY Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?...
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
DAVID HOCKNEY Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was...
DAVID HOCKNEY When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's t...
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm fed up with being bossed around.
DAVID HOCKNEY I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
DAVID HOCKNEY I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can...
DAVID HOCKNEY East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these ma...
DAVID HOCKNEY And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this...
DAVID HOCKNEY Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, w...
DAVID HOCKNEY All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
DAVID HOCKNEY No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting a...
DAVID HOCKNEY On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself u...
DAVID HOCKNEY I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, w...
DAVID HOCKNEY We grow small trying to be great.
DAVID HOCKNEY Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.
DAVID HOCKNEY When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn't sound...
DAVID HOCKNEY Smoking calms me down. It?s enjoyable. I don?t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life...
DAVID HOCKNEY There are enough no smoking places now.
DAVID HOCKNEY It's really about liberty. I'm very concerned about a growing intolerance and bossiness throughout s...
DAVID HOCKNEY Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.
DAVID HOCKNEY A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
DAVID HOCKNEY Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it
DAVID HOCKNEY It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
DAVID HOCKNEY Pubs aren't health clubs. To me, we're creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad.
DAVID HOCKNEY Anything simple always interests me.
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
DAVID HOCKNEY You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical pro...
DAVID HOCKNEY I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the mome...
DAVID HOCKNEY I'm a bit of a propagandist.
DAVID HOCKNEY The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
DAVID HOCKNEY You destroy bohemia.
DAVID HOCKNEY West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
DAVID HOCKNEY Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
DAVID HOCKNEY We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
DAVID HOCKNEY You must plan to be spontaneous.
DAVID HOCKNEY Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
DAVID HOCKNEY To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
DAVID HOCKNEY When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawin...
DAVID HOCKNEY Like people, trees are all individuals.
DAVID HOCKNEY What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...
DAVID HOCKNEY I prefer living in color.
DAVID HOCKNEY Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
DAVID HOCKNEY Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
DAVID HOCKNEY My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY