Quotes About Photography

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

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.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

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

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

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

The camera can photograph thought.

I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

A lot of the children I photograph are extremely colorfully dressed in some way. But I also find a lot of kids with outsized personalities or who happen to be doing something charming.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.