Sarah Dessen Quotes

A camera gives you a purpose.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

When I’m photographing I see life.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

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

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.