Quotes About Photography

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.

I have gained confidence in front of the camera.

I've been going around London obsessing about people's gardens; I take pictures on my BlackBerry.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Part of my job is getting dressed up and having my picture taken and the best way of dealing with that is finding a way of enjoying it.

When I was 8 years old, I asked my parents to get me head shots, and they were like, 'What are you talking about? Go outside and play!' I'm so glad they did.

I do glamorous photoshoots but I don't like nudity and I am against it.

Natural lighting is the best, or golden hour when the sun is setting, because it makes your eyes brighter and everything else just glow.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

Mid-morning is a good time for selfies because of the natural light.

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I wish I don't tan. I dread the thought of shooting on the beach.

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn't like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn't taken.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.