Quotes About Interpretation

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.

Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in 'Photograph.'

I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like a table, or it looks like a photograph of a table. Engineers do that with sound.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

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

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

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

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

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

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

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.

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

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.