Quotes About Photography

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

You can't get any pictures from way back there.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of pictures with and I just remember something always went wrong.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I take a lot of pictures.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film - now, my digital cards. But I shoot an awful lot of pictures. I don't want to hesitate, because I believe the moment is everything in a picture. So, I take the pictures.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!