Quotes About Perception

When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.

It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

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.

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 hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

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

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

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 like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

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

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.

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 didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

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 my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

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