Quotes About Photography

Just being a model and having been shipped off to Paris at 17, I wish my mom could have been at some of those photo shoots because there are some creepy people out there.

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.

It's so boring to put on make-up and change clothes five times in a row for one photo shoot.

As soon as I gave birth, I had, like, 20 kilos, which I think is about 50 lbs., and I realized, 'Oh my gosh - in one month, I have my photo shoot.' So I had to lose a lot, and you know, it doesn't happen in one month. So it took me almost a year because I think, realistically, it takes about a year.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

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

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

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.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

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.

When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.

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.

It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.

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

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.