Quotes About Inspiration

Photography is like oxygen for me. My hobby is my oxygen.

I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

I've been working with photography for many years.

Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Photography is an accident.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I love photography myself.

I was interested in photography from my college days and wanted to become a cinematographer.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.