Quotes About Art

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

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That's what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I've ever known.