All you can do with most ordinary photographs is stare at them—they stare back, blankly—and presently your concentration begins to fade. They stare you down. I mean, photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralysed cyclops—for a split second.


as told to Lawrence Weschler, Cameraworks (1984)

David Hockney Quotes

All you can do with most ordinary photographs is stare at them—they stare back, blankly—and presently your concentration begins to fade. They...

All you can do with most ordinary photographs is stare at them—they stare back, blankly—and presently your concentration begins to fade. They...

All you can do with most ordinary photographs is stare at them—they stare back, blankly—and presently your concentration begins to fade. They...

All you can do with most ordinary photographs is stare at them—they stare back, blankly—and presently your concentration begins to fade. They...