Quotes About Art

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.

I never read about photography.

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.