"California is always in my mind."

-- David Hockney

#California Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.”
“It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.”
“I don't like to start anything, ever, but if they're going to try to intimidate me, I like to just stand there and say, 'Sorry, it ain't gonna happen.' I'm shy but I'm badass. I'm not shy in a timid way, just shy in a way that I'm not comfortable with people.”

Source : "Rosie Napravnik: 'I had a dream of winning the Derby on Shanghai Bobby'". Interview with Daniel Ross, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2013.
“The great theatre for virtue is conscience.”
“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.”

Source : Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf
“I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”
“We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.”
“So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.”

You may also like:

Andy Warhol
Artist
Claes Oldenburg
Sculptor
Edward Hopper
Painter
Henri Matisse
Artist
Jasper Johns
Artist
Keith Haring
Visual Artist
Lucian Freud
Painter
Robert Rauschenberg
Painter
Roy Lichtenstein
Artist