Quotes About Perception

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

I draw badly. Photography's much easier than drawing.

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty. I want that in my photography. It isn't always what we conventionally think of as beauty.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Unfiltered photos always get more attention. Filters are easy to discern.

I don't really go to a lot of parties. It only seems that way because so many photos are taken when I do go to one.

I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger.

All I've wanted to be is someone people look up to. It's funny - everyone says I'm controversial. I've never worked out what it is about me that's controversial. I've never had a DUI; I've never been in a brawl; you've never seen photos of me walking out of clubs at 5 A.M.

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.

Some people look at my photos and think maybe I'm feeling frazzled, but I really want to tell them I'm just having a bad hair day!

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.