David Karp Quotes

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Photography helps people to see.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

When I’m photographing I see life.

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

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.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.