Christopher Isherwood Quotes

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

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

I've been working with photography for many years.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would agree that when you look back on it, those times are well remembered.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.

The older you get, the more you've done.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

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

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

Cameras intrigued me.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

This moment will just be another story someday.

The camera is the eye of history.