Nigella Lawson Quotes

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

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.

I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

I think to be a good model, you have to enjoy having your picture taken, and I never really did.

I have my insecurities, and some days you don't want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don't notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it's all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

People saw more magic in me than I saw.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.