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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

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. ↗

— David Hockney

#especially #look #me #nature #rather

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. ↗

— David Hockney

#dramatic #quite #things #west #yorkshire

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. ↗

— David Hockney

#big #deeply #i #know #space

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? ↗

— David Hockney

#bring #drawing #telephone #thought #who

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #course #did #exciting #expressionist

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

— David Hockney

#camera #chemical #invention #inventor #name

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

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#been #born #brains #given #hands