David Hockney Quotes

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

The image is an image.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Draw what you see.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.