Quotes About Photography

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

I don't even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I'm so self-conscious about things.

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

My mum always had fun on shoots, but afterwards, she would pick us up from school and make dinner. I had a pretty normal childhood.

Mum always had a camera with her on her shoulder, so I just thought everyone took pictures. Sometimes shed set her camera for us and wed take the pictures.

It's mad for me because I'm kind of shy. When everyone's running up to me shouting, 'Can I take pictures?'

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

Yeah, I've always liked Barbara Crane's stuff.

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

'iNkaba' has made me famous in the living rooms of the people of my country. It was almost like being famous all over again. People stop me in the street and shopping malls to take pictures.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

Fading photographs on the corridor walls from the 1960s and 1970s showed children strapped to frightening-looking machines, wires dangling from their heads. They smiled at the camera in uncomprehending excitement as if they were at the beach.

Even then, when the hike was perfect, I would wonder, 'Now what?' And take a picture. Take another picture. Like a man with a photogenic girlfriend he didn't love.

After Gary had given the enlargements their sour baths, he raised the lights and discovered that both prints were webbed over with peculiar yellow blotches. He cursed a little, not so much because he cared about the prints as because he wanted to preserve his good spirits, his serotonin-rich mood, and to do this he needed... cooperation from the world of objects.

Does the world really need more amateur photographs of giraffes?

Every so many years, he went to England to visit—judging by the photographs he showed us—a sundial and some oak trees.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abstract art involves complex layers and perspectives. To be distinct and hold a truly personalized view point, every element in the piece must be devised to be claimed as entirely mine. Meaning it's all based on sculpture, because most of what we know of photography involves capturing someone else's work, which I dislike.

Sometimes, I am lucky because all factors are combined - composition, light, emotion - and sometimes not. Most of the time, I must be patient and wait.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.