David Hockney Quotes

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

'Sports Illustrated' does extremely minimal retouching. Other publications, however... phew. They do a lot; I've watched myself be Photoshopped before. It. Is. The. Worst.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks.

I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.

I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.

A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn't be.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison.'

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.