Quotes About Inspiration

I always carry a Moleskine journal and a simple Parker Jotter click-pen. Journaling an experience is worth more than any photograph.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

Listening to Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

I never set out to be a photographer.

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'