David Hockney Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

• 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 fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Editing

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

• 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.

• The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Hands

• Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Real, Depiction

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

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

  David Hockney

  Photography, Perspective, Mind

• ...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Taken

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

• People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, People

• I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

  David Hockney

  Photography

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

• 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.

• All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Certain, Painter

• I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

  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.

• I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Dull

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

• 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.

• You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Eras, Saws

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

• Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Space, Cameras

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

• 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 there be in that?

  David Hockney

  Photography, Reality, Men

• 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.

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