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

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

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.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

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.

Back 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.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

I 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.

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

I’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.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

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.

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 see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

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

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

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

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

Madonna, 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.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

I 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.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

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’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I love a natural look in pictures.

When 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.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

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.