“You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?” IfsBelieveMeanDoeHandsMetsBarackDigitalShakingShaking Hands Author:David Hockney
“Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.” WellsStillsMovingMystery Author:David Hockney
“I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.” ThinkingWayMadeEffectsPhotographyLandscapeDullSpatial Author:David Hockney
“Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.” SpacePhotographyCamerasSurface Author:David Hockney
“I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.” ThinkingFeelsI CanSoundSpaceDeafBecause I CanSpatial Author:David Hockney
“We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.” PeopleIfsWayWellsLooksPersonsDifferentHardMemoriesCasesSeeingMetsSittingAssumingBounds Author:David Hockney
“I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.” PeopleArtistSawsLoad Author:David Hockney
“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.” PeopleFrontsShadowCamerasPhotographLoad Author:David Hockney
“The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.” NeedsPhotographyCamerasClearingHistory Of PhotographyClearing Out Author:David Hockney