David Hockney Quotes About Perspective

Quotes about: Perspective

• Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.

  David Hockney

  Law, Ideas, Perspective

• The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.

  David Hockney

  Mistake, Perspective, World

• There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Perspective, Mind

• The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

  David Hockney

  Real, Perspective, Definitions

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

• 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 things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

  David Hockney

  Perspective, Cameras, Versatile

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

• 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.

• Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

  David Hockney

  Confused, Years, Perspective

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