David Hockney
We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.Collection: Moving
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.Collection: Real
I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Photography
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.Collection: Powerful
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.Collection: Art
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.Collection: Art
The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.Collection: Perspective
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.Collection: Beautiful
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.Collection: Moving
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.Collection: Photography
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.Collection: Art
Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not seriousCollection: Mean
Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.Collection: Tired
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.Collection: Photography
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.Collection: Photography
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.Collection: Artist
...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.Collection: Photography
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.Collection: People
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.Collection: Thinking
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'Collection: Drawing
I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.Collection: Rain
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.Collection: Statistics
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.Collection: Cameras
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.Collection: Painting
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.Collection: Photograph
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.Collection: Black And White
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.Collection: Photography
Faces are the most interesting things we seeCollection: Love
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.Collection: Shapes
I do believe that painting can change the world.Collection: Believe
I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.Collection: Said
Water colours are wet colours in water.Collection: Water
I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.Collection: Moving
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.Collection: Art
The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.Collection: Strong
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.Collection: Education
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.Collection: Art
Drawing takes time. A line has time in itCollection: Drawing
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.Collection: Mean
If you like music you like silence actually.Collection: Silence