Home / Quotes / Quote by David Hockney

Quote by David Hockney

“But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.”

Quote by David Hockney

Author

David Hockney is a renowned British photographer, born on July 9, 1937. His works are known for their unique perspective and color application, which have had a profound impact on the development of photographic art. more

You May Also Like

“I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.”

Said Use Evil Enormous Bagels

Book:Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle

Source: Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle

“If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.”

Ifs Empires Dishes Pizza

Book:Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, and Vulgar Excesses

Source: Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, and Vulgar Excesses

“The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.”

“I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.”

Earth Activity Superiority Advancement

Book:How Reading Changed My Life

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.”

Sometimes Winning Sex Tables Wine Drinking Including Kitchen Satisfying Spontaneous Toss Protocol Kitchen Table

Author:Bob Blumer

“In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart perhaps for the Windows operating system, which has achieved the near universal adoption of a conceptually and technologically poor product by the sheer force of market dominance.”

Use Earth Language Force Poor Numbers Products Window Universal Adoption Sheer Dominance Arithmetic Universal Language Operating Systems

Author:Keith Devlin

“Life is like a simile.”

Life Is Simile Life Is Like

Author:Terry Carr

“... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.”

Knows Mean Important Faces Results Development Blow Customers Testing Undefined

Author:Scott Meyers

“Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.”

People Writing Years Hard Alive Ten Labor Iron Ovens Waffles Toasters

Author:Scott Meyers

“Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.”

Sleep Late Wide Get Up Awake Up Early Good Sleep Wide Awake Good Night Sleep Sleep Late

Author:Matthew Henry