Grimes Quotes

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

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.

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.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

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.

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

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

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.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

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.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

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

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

Photography helps people to see.

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

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

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.

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.