#graph

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

#actually #began #cameras #going #i

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #degree #garden #i #kyoto

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

— David Hockney

#criticized #me #people #photography #said

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. ↗

— David Hockney

#fraction #open #photographs #scrutiny #second

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. ↗

— David Hockney

#good #photograph #real

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

#chemicals #ended #episode #era #fixed

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charles #couple #i #journalist #long

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#beginning #being #biographies #book #called

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

#any #autographs #ballplayer #communist #kids