Quotes About Perception

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

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.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.

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.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Photography helps people to see.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.