Quotes About Photography

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do that. It's really hard for, I guess, every woman to not internalize misogyny. I just learned as I went on how to best capture my subjects without objectifying them.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

Young photographers must experiment all the time and not be frightened of using light - freely-shooting straight into the light if need be - making an effort to get new angles on much photographed subjects, and also discovering chemical properties of film itself.

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

It's fundamental to succeed in coming into contact with your subject. Whether it's a big Hollywood star or a passer-by in the street, it makes no difference.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.

If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.