#photograph

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#i #people #photograph #remotely #same

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#did #drawing #i #like #painting

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

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. ↗

— Andre Bazin

#corruption #create #does #eternity #photography