Quotes About Photography

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

I love Steven Meisel and David Sims' work, I think they're both amazing photographers. I want to be at the same level as them one day.

I make video art pieces, take photographs, and dabble in acting ever since my screen test for 'Memoirs of a Geisha' with Steven Spielberg. But music is my first love and always will be my priority.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.

I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.