Quotes About Insight

Philosophy is for the few.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

The camera can photograph thought.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

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.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

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

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

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

I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.

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

The camera photographs what's there.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Photography helps people to see.