Halima Aden Quotes

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

I think each shoot has a different personality.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

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

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

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.

The 'Flex' shoot was incredibly amazing. It was a total dream come true for me, because it was my first media magazine of that sort outside of wrestling.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.