Bill Cunningham Quotes

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

It's funny: I kinda still float under the radar. I'm not tall like a New York Knick; I'm not a heavy, strong New York Giant or New York Jet. I blend in pretty well. A lot of people don't recognize me too many places. More men recognize me than women.

I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

I try to live under the radar as much as possible.

If I'm out shopping, in Topshop or wherever, I'm never spotted. In fact, I'm usually asked if I have a student card. No-one seems to notice me, they're oblivious to who I am even in Scotland, and I'm very happy to be able to blend in with the crowd.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.

On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

I've always been under the radar.

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

I try to keep a low profile.

I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

I've always liked being able to go around incognito in Copenhagen.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.