#hem

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#bestows #equal #equally #experience #men

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. ↗

— Dee Hock

#ephemeral #form #substance

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

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. ↗

— David Hockney

#day #draw #every #every day #flowers

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. ↗

— David Hockney

#downloading #especially #going #images #prison

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. ↗

— David Hockney

#bit #channels #collage #different #everyone

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

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #chemical #invention #inventor #name