photography quotes

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love a natural look in pictures.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!