Alice Sebold Quotes

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

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.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

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.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

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.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

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

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.