Quotes About Inspiration

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

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

I love working with photographers.

Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.

Tanushree taught me how to do make-up when I didn't even know how to hold a brush, She encouraged me to go to acting school when I was not confident about my personality and acting. She even got my pictures done by the best photographers in town. She motivated me to do my best.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

I always liked taking photographs.

With my mum, I grew up watching her taking photographs, but with your parents, you just go, Those are my parents. Then you get to a certain age and, if youre lucky, you have the opportunity to talk to them.