David Hockney Quotes

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

What a long strange trip it's been.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

When I’m photographing I see life.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

By seeing differently, we do differently

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.