Quotes About Perception

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.

Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn't get any grief. Why me?

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

I get photographed at events and it must look like that's my life, but it's not. That's not real life. I wonder do the Kardashians have any real life?

Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

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

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

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

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

There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.

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 was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

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

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

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

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

When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.