David Hockney Quotes

I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

I get excited by landscape.

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

Land really is the best art.

I adore Dartmoor, where I grew up, and the Cotswolds are amazing.

My favourite place in Britain is... my home county of Shropshire. I think it's one of the most beautiful places in the world.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.