Quotes About Introspection

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in 'Photograph.'

I don't like my work. I didn't like my work in 'Dangal,' and then in 'Photograph,' I was cribbing.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

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.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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.

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.