Quotes About Creativity

All I wanted to do was to perform my music, so I never really thought about photo shoots or music video shoots or interviews. You can't anticipate those things - you just can't plan this as a job.

With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.

People think photo shoots are easy but they're actually very, very hard, you're not only holding your body position but you're thinking about not looking cold in freezing water, your body looking good, my face and everything - it's tough but I love it.

After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take it seriously.

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

The camera can photograph thought.