All DAVID HOCKNEY 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.”
“I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.”
“Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.”
“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”
“I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.”
“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?”
“The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.”
“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.”
“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.”

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