(b.1952– )
English art critic and writer
Martin Gayford
Light is not easily perceived unless it falls on something. And much of the time the largest, most complex object visible outdoors will be a tree, or a mass of them—a wood, a forest. Therefore it is often when we look at trees that we actually see the beauty of a certain light.
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011), 110.