“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist...” — David Hockney Quote

“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”

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

“Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!”

“With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!”

“A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.”

“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”