Quotes About Imagination

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

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

I wish I were a really good photographer.

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

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

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

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

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

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

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

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

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

I've been working with photography for many years.

There's something about light field photography that's just magical.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

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