Quotes About Perspective

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

I wish I were a really good photographer.

Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.

I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he'd always say, 'I am going to shoot you' and I would always cry.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

I love working with photographers.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.