Quotes About Photography

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.

I was interested in photography from my college days and wanted to become a cinematographer.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other hobby is photography.