Margaret Trudeau Quotes

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I like to have fun on photo shoots.

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

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

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

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

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

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.