Quotes About Expression

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

I don't like my work. I didn't like my work in 'Dangal,' and then in 'Photograph,' I was cribbing.

I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like a table, or it looks like a photograph of a table. Engineers do that with sound.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.