Quotes About Creativity

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

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.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.

I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.

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

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

I always liked taking photographs.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

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

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I never really learned photography.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

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

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

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

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.