David Hockney (b. 1937)

"Is it possible to do anything new in the landscape genre? Most of the art world thinks it's not worth doing anymore... It is the position I now find myself in, realizing that two hundred years ago Constable would have thought the optical projection of nature was something to aim for. I now know it is not. So stand in the landscape you love, try and depict your feelings of space, and forget photographic vision, which is distancing us too much from the physical world"

(David Hockney as quoted in: The East Yorkshire Landscape, exh. cat, LA Louver, 2007, n.p.).