Quotes About Evolution

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

You see kids walking to the bus, and they're watching product on their phones. I'm positive that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to put on a pair of glasses and watch something.

In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

I never set out to be a photographer.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

I'm still learning and I'm still growing as a photographer.

You have to keep in mind that fashion is constantly changing and every runway show, every designer and every photographer - they are going to have a different vision in mind.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

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

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I did painting before I did photography.

To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.