Quotes about My Photo

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context. Votes: 5

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop. Votes: 4

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms. Votes: 4

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why. Votes: 4

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella. Votes: 4

I hate having my photograph taken. Votes: 3

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. Votes: 3

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. Votes: 3

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. Votes: 3

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography. Votes: 3

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. Votes: 3

My best photo will be the last one, that I want to be taken. Votes: 3

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. Votes: 3

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. Votes: 3

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Votes: 3

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. Votes: 3

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken." Votes: 3

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. Votes: 3

We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos. Votes: 3

I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition. Votes: 3

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people. Votes: 3

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. Votes: 3

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone." Votes: 3

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone. Votes: 3

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. Votes: 3

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras. Votes: 3

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful. Votes: 3

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it. Votes: 3

I can't handle the paparazzi. They're everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy! Votes: 3

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face. Votes: 3

If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me. Votes: 3

Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph. Votes: 3

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. Votes: 3

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience. Votes: 3

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too. Votes: 3

I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it. Votes: 3

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness. Votes: 3

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from. Votes: 3

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life. Votes: 3

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music. Votes: 3

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind. Votes: 3

I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless. Votes: 3

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean. Votes: 3

Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view. Votes: 3

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments. Votes: 3

I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either. Votes: 3

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it. Votes: 3

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation. Votes: 3

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature. Votes: 3

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. Votes: 3

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster. Votes: 3

In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity. Votes: 3

Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one. Votes: 3

My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more. Votes: 3

Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone. Votes: 3

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator Votes: 3

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. Votes: 3

My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them. Votes: 3

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working. Votes: 3

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy. Votes: 3

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say. Votes: 3

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. Votes: 3

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary. Votes: 3

The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this. Votes: 3

I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away. Votes: 3

Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Votes: 3

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories. Votes: 3

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing. Votes: 3

All I do is make photos. It's my life. Votes: 2

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos. Votes: 2

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps. Votes: 2

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing. Votes: 2

Nonni's Biscotti Bites fit perfectly in my camera bag for a spontaneous break between photo shoots. Votes: 2

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual. Votes: 2

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it. Votes: 2

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine. Votes: 2

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo. Votes: 2

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own. Votes: 2

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes. Votes: 2

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb. Votes: 2

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes. Votes: 2

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable. Votes: 2

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos. Votes: 2

I'm so tired that my driver's license photo actually looks better than I do! Votes: 0

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself. Votes: 0

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me. Votes: 0

My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?' Votes: 0

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict. Votes: 0

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis. Votes: 0

My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo. Votes: 0

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face. Votes: 0

I dyed my hair for photo tests... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again? Votes: 0

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control. Votes: 0

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control. Votes: 0

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life. Votes: 0

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. Votes: 0

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life. Votes: 0

My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins. Votes: 0

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. Votes: 0

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots. Votes: 0

I was in America, someone wanted a photo with me, I put my arm around her and she told me not to touch her. Votes: 0

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots! Votes: 0

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since. Votes: 0

Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. Votes: 0

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough. Votes: 0

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op. Votes: 0

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science. Votes: 0

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from. Votes: 0

You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.' Votes: 0