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The video camera dominates ar...

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 219 quotes

Faces are the most interestin...

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

David Hockney 219 quotes

The 'how' has a great effect ...

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

David Hockney 219 quotes

Photography hankers after the...

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 219 quotes

I've finally figured out what...

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 219 quotes

I think photography has made ...

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 219 quotes

Photoshop came out of paintin...

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

David Hockney 219 quotes

About shadows: do we see shad...

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 219 quotes

The thing with high-tech is t...

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

David Hockney 219 quotes

Modernism in a way, early mod...

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 219 quotes

Everything does come from nat...

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

David Hockney 219 quotes

In art, new ways of seeing me...

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

David Hockney 219 quotes

How difficult it is to learn ...

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

David Hockney 219 quotes

I have always believed that a...

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

David Hockney 219 quotes

There's a Chinese proverb tha...

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

David Hockney 219 quotes

The history of photography ne...

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

David Hockney 219 quotes

Water in swimming pools chang...

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

David Hockney 219 quotes

All art is contemporary, if i...

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

David Hockney 219 quotes

You always need a bit of low-...

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, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

David Hockney 219 quotes

People from the village come ...

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

David Hockney 219 quotes

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