Ralph Gibson Quotes

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

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.

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

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

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

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.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.