Quotes About Observation

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

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

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

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

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

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

What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

The camera photographs what's there.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

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

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

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

I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.

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

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

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.