Photography Quotes

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

I draw cinematic and photography and art references from everywhere. That's part of my job. So yes, you watch films, you see artists for palettes, photographers for mood.

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn't take ordinarily. That's the advantage of digital photography.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Photography has literally changed my life.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I love photography myself.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers.

There are so many different things in life. Photography is what I choose because I like it and I do it well.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I'm not drawn to people that much unless there's a really serious energy happening, but I'll take a lot of pictures of trees, or I'm always staring at the ground. I'll see an oil stain that looks like something out of 'Lord of the Rings' or something, and that's what kind of calls to me... I'm drawn to that aspect of photography.

We've got pictures from the Space Station going back 20 years. We can see the glaciers receding in the photography that we do. We can see the effects of lakes drying up and other things that are happening around the planet.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.