Quotes About Art

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

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

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

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

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

I always liked taking photographs.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Photography is like oxygen for me. My hobby is my oxygen.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I never really learned photography.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.