Quotes About Culture

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.

A long, long time ago, I was in front of the 'Mona Lisa' and I heard someone saying, 'Ugh! Take your photo and go!' And it bummed me out. Shouldn't there be more of a reverent experience?

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

Everywhere in New York is cool to see and cool to photograph.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.

In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the marathon course is sacred ground. For others, it's a personal movie set.

We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers.

Selfies became too big. The selfie photos are not good. Fans ask me for a selfie, and I say, 'Let's just do a photo.' I'm not anti-selfie, but I like a classic photograph.