Latest David Hockney Quotes from Interviews

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• 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 can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Believe, Mean

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

  David Hockney

  Ink, Problem, Printing

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Europe

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

  David Hockney

  War, Cameras, Photograph

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Reflection, Mirrors

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• 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

  Simple, Shocked

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Giving, Clue

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• If you like music you like silence actually.

  David Hockney

  Silence, Ifs

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Thinking, Painting

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

  David Hockney

  Hate, Backgrounds, Background Music

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

  David Hockney

  Hard Work, Thinking, Artist

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

  David Hockney

  Art, World, Interest

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.

  David Hockney

  Tired, Might

  BBC John Tusa Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

• 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 it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Order, Facts

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Eye, Looks

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

  David Hockney

  Remember, Difficult, Colour

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Depiction, Representation

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

• An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Might, Hedonism

  BBC John Tusa Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

• I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

  David Hockney

  Said, Wells, Feels

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

  David Hockney

  Powerful, Confused, Reading

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

  David Hockney

  Doctors, Talking, Years

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Clearing Out, Cameras

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.

  David Hockney

  People, Shadow, Cameras

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

  David Hockney

  Art, Cameras

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.