David Hockney Photography Quotes

#1. If you need to talk about your childhood, you're safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I'm right here, Lev. I'll find them all, I'm good at details, and I'll put you back together. You're safe here.

Christine Feehan

#2. You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

John Hickenlooper

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

David Hockney

#4. 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

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

David Hockney

#6. All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

David Hockney

#7. 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

#8. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

#9. Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

Mark Zuckerberg

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

David Hockney

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. It was nice to meet you, Mila. Thank you for saving my life.

Courtney Cole

#15. 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

#16. Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#18. There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. 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

#20. I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

Ryan Gosling

#21. I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Kristen Stewart

#22. 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

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

David Hockney

#24. In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.
And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.

Chris Bohjalian

#25. The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

Rosie O'Donnell

#26. My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

Bitsie Tulloch

#27. 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

#28. Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

Arthur Rimbaud