Quotes About Inspiration

When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I took to my hairdresser was Jean Seberg in Breathless. I said, 'Make me look like this.'

A photo is a creation.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'

My roommate and best friend from college had the picture of 'Frances Ha' as her Facebook cover photo. That movie meant a lot to us.

After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take it seriously.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.

My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie.

I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.

I found my first picture of Amanda Lepore online in fashion magazines. It was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen in my life. I thought nothing could trump the perfection of that photograph.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in 'Photograph.'