Nicki Minaj Quotes

Photography helps people to see.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

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.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

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

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.