Alyssa Sutherland Quotes

Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

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

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

The fight for photography became my life.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

A camera gives you a purpose.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.