Hockney Photography Quotes

#1. I've decided to stick with love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

David Hockney

#3. 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

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

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

#6. 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

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

David Hockney

#8. Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.

Martin Gayford

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I'd be a fuck up, that I'd be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew it. I wasn't a good man, not well-adjusted. - Nolan

Stephanie Witter

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

David Hockney

#17. We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.

Michelle Moran

#18. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Rufus Sewell

#19. Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

Mark Pryor

#20. 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