As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
David HockneyTime is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
David HockneyModernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.
David Hockney