But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.
Keanu ReevesI loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
George LucasSuccess is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Michelle ObamaI’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady GagaI’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Keanu ReevesWhen I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.
Clint EastwoodEvery picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.
Clint EastwoodBetter do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia EarhartI’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady GagaI love a natural look in pictures.
Marilyn MonroeI am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
Kanye WestI always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
Marilyn MonroeI just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.
Billie EilishI was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.
Keanu ReevesI strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Jeff BezosBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinBack in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Kurt VonnegutPictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
Clint EastwoodI didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘
The WeekndI love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.
Brene BrownIt takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!
Abby Lee MillerI believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Bill GatesBlack-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Karl LagerfeldI think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.
Keanu ReevesI really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.
Billie EilishWhen the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia WoolfI like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Jeff BezosThat’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
David ByrneA gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaUnless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsI was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.
George LucasI’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
Anthony BourdainTo give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas AdamsWhen I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
Kurt CobainI couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.
David ByrneOld friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
Dalai LamaI like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.
Mark ZuckerbergThe thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘
Billy GrahamI hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John SteinbeckArtists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.
Keanu ReevesI hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.
Billie EilishI say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
Matthew McConaugheyCameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
Matthew McConaugheyEverybody 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.
RihannaAt my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMadonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.
Kanye WestI’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‚ambient music.‘ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
Brian EnoI love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.
Billie EilishIn my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Charles BukowskiMicrosoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
Bill GatesWhen you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.
John WayneAll my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie ChaplinWhen you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.
Clint EastwoodObjects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe