#photo

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. ↗

— Lewis Hine

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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. ↗

— David Hockney

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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

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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

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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

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

— David Hockney

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

— David Hockney

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

— David Hockney

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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

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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

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