#cause

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cause #doubting #even #glimpse #laid

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#desire #fear #here #itself #life

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. ↗

— David Hockney

#i #i do #listening #lot #me

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. ↗

— David Hockney

#avoid #because #days #english #i

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #bother #could #go #good

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. ↗

— David Hockney

#demands #e-mails #first #me #need

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#art #artist #because #bring #closer

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #course #did #exciting #expressionist