Jasper Johns Quotes

I like creating images.

What I do is create images, period.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

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.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

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

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

A photo is a creation.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

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

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

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

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

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

So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

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.