Patrick Leahy Quotes

I've hidden behind the camera my whole life because I much, much, much prefer shooting. Being behind the camera is my safe space, and it's my creative space, too.

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

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

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

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

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

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

I'm happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn't know it until I got up there.

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

All kids love to color - even the older ones, and it can be a very relaxing activity for everyone.

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.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

A camera gives you a purpose.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.