Patrick Demarchelier Quotes

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

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

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

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.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

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.

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

A camera gives you a purpose.

I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.