Quotes About Art

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

The camera can photograph thought.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

If you recognize a photograph by me, I'm a failure.

Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.

I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like a table, or it looks like a photograph of a table. Engineers do that with sound.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.