Quotes About Reflection

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

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.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it's my last hobby.

Photography has literally changed my life.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

My mom and I don't have a lot of photos of my early years.

I made a lot of not-so-fashionable choices in my life. I see all of those photos that are on the Internet forever.

So often, we take photos on our iPhone, and then they're gone in a year, and we don't even remember them. I like to experience life and disconnect from that.

I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Do you ever think about the fact that Jesus never said a mumbling word? You may have heard that phrase before, but how much have you ever thought about it?