Quotes About Exploration

We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take it seriously.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with 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 wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

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 lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

I did painting before I did photography.