Quotes About Discovery

I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

I never set out to be a photographer.

In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

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.

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

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

I came to photography by accident.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion.

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.

It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.