#pictures

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#avenue #because #get #i #i think

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. ↗

— David Hockney

#always #colour #constructed #constructing #did

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #anything #different #go #i

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

— David Hockney

#brushes #cameras #computers #however #i

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#am #devoutly #expected #happy #i

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?' ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#how #i #i do #i think #look

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#individually #made #marks #physically #pictures

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#century #changed #did #hardly #just