David Hockney Quotes

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.