David Hockney Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.”

“I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.”

“But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.”

“Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.”

“I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.”

“I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.”

“I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.”

“A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.”

“It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.”

“Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.”