Quotes About Emotions

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.

Most people, when they lose their dads, they go through a period of mourning and grieving, and time begins to heal their sadness. But we don't have the opportunity to heal. I know my brother and sister feel the same. The man was probably one of the most photographed people who ever lived.

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom - it became a sort of safe haven for me.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Some people look at my photos and think maybe I'm feeling frazzled, but I really want to tell them I'm just having a bad hair day!

I have very strong memories of my early years. In fact, I remember the house I was born in, and we moved from that house when I was less than ten months old. I have drawn pictures of it and shown my mother, and she was shocked because we have no photos of the place, and I was very accurate.

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

Depression is a physical illness.

A cat is incredibly physical, and as a performer, I'm physical. If I feel emotions, they move through my body in a way that is sensual. I'm not necessarily in control of that.

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.

This sport has given me so much. It has taught me to be strong emotionally and physically.