Quotes About Photography

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

All the people on the Flickr team are committed to what we're doing, which is to be the eyes of the world.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

I literally get dressed for Instagram to take pictures. I have sweats on every other hour of the day.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

Peter Lindbergh is the most charming man - I did a Gap commercial for him, and he was just so sweet.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.