Antony Armstrong-Jones Quotes

Photography helps people to see.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.