[b]David Hockney
Perspective is a law of optics. The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.[/b]
An Eastern thing apparently.
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That’s not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn’t it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
Nope, not yet.
People tend to forget that play is serious.
On the other hand, there’s probably a good reason for that.
I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It’s an interesting one and it’s a permanent one; there’s no solution to it. There are a thousand and one ways you can go about it. There’s no set rule.
On the other hand, how formal is that?
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
Not counting mine of course.
There’s a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
Well, it’s either you or the immutable laws of matter.