Quotes About Perception

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

You can always tell a great photographer because they make you feel super-relaxed.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

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

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

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 am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

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.

I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

The camera photographs what's there.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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