Jimmy Chin Quotes

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

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

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.

I really prize and love great painting.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.