Quotes About Expression

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

I love working with photographers.

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.