Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it… — David Hockney Copy Share
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,… — David Hockney Copy Share
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney Copy Share
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment,… — David Hockney Copy Share
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things… The high-tech,… — David Hockney Copy Share
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see… — David Hockney Copy Share
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art… — David Hockney Copy Share
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at… — David Hockney Copy Share
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times… — David Hockney Copy Share
