Quotes About Creativity

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

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

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.

There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.

I never read about photography.

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.