“We’re so used to looking at pictures where the viewpoint is fixed and the artist, like the cameraman, stood still. We begin to think that everything looks that way, don’t we? But it’s actually very unlike the way we see, because our lives are all about movement. We want movement. Now, if I walk around the chair, and think about what I saw, this seems to me, makes it more real.” 

– David Hockney, 1992

Click here to watch footage from 1992 of Hockney speaking about his ideas on perspective through the depiction of a chair. 

His current exhibition David Hockney: Painting and Photography is on view at L.A. Louver through September 19, 2015.

IMAGE: David Hockney, The Chair, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, Framed: 49 ¾ x 37 5/8 x 2 ½ in. (126.4 x 95.6 x 6.4 cm)