#met

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#die #every #every day #everyone #go

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. ↗

— David Hockney

#envision #fact #limit #long #mind

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. ↗

— David Hobson

#cleaning #down #enjoy #feels #garden

I just started working the graveyard shift at the cemetery. Come to think of it, every shift at the cemetery is the graveyard shift. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #graveyard-shift #funny

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. ↗

— David Hockney

#british #go #paint #see #something

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

I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#different #each #gives #i #me