Quotes About Photography

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

In the day, I wear mascara and tinted moisturiser - although I've learnt that if I'm getting my photograph taken, it's better to apply more; otherwise, I look really, really tired.

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

If you recognize a photograph by me, I'm a failure.

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

I always carry a Moleskine journal and a simple Parker Jotter click-pen. Journaling an experience is worth more than any photograph.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.

Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn't get any grief. Why me?

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.