Quotes About Creativity

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

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

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

I love working with photographers.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

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.

Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.

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

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

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

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.