David Quotes
I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.
In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.