Quotes About Expression

With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.

A photo does not mean I agree with anything someone says.

If I happily smile and play around and laugh 'ha-ha, hoo-hoo, yay,' laughing like that, I think the photo looks cooler. If I just stand there like this, like 'Oh, I'm a model,' well, I don't think that's what it means to be a model at all.

My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs.

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

The camera can photograph thought.

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.