Quotes About Perception

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

People take secret pictures of me... it fries my brain. I'm just a bloke, Just come and talk to me, I'd love to talk to you.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I have a fat head - I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

My pictures are airbrushed.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.