Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it. — 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
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — 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
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The… — 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
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a… — 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
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead,… — 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
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can… — 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
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. — 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
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — 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
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer. — 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
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any… — 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
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've… — 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 Image
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 Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Image
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Image
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