Ben Schott Quotes

I came to photography by accident.

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.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

I love working with photographers.

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

I never set out to be a photographer.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

I love Instagram and photography.

I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

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.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.