Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

I 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.

Every 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.

All art is quite useless.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

I 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.

I 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.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

It 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!

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Microsoft 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.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

I’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.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

Classical – perhaps I should say ‚orchestral‘ – music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It’s all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

I 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.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I’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.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I 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.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

I 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.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

All 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.