Quotes About Communication

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he'd always say, 'I am going to shoot you' and I would always cry.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

I love working with photographers.

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

Rex has photographers around the world - it's a higher touch business: there are a lot of relationships involved. If you throw an event, there are certain photographers you've worked with before and you want there.

I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

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.