Quotes About Photography

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

I was staring at a wall of photos and thought, 'What would that sound like if it was music?' And I guess that was the kicker. That's what got me going.

In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

We've got pictures from the Space Station going back 20 years. We can see the glaciers receding in the photography that we do. We can see the effects of lakes drying up and other things that are happening around the planet.

During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character.

Photography teaches me to be observant," said Serge. "Discipline. Becoming one with the environment so I don't miss even the smallest detail." A skunk ape crossed the road behind him.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

You'd rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that's going to last than pay less money for a headshot that's not good enough.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.