David Hockney Cameras Quotations

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

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.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

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.

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.

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.