Gordon Bell Quotes

I love taking pictures of food.

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

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.

The camera photographs what's there.

Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

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.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

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

I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera!

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

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

All the people on the Flickr team are committed to what we're doing, which is to be the eyes of the world.

I was always in front of the camera. My mom was really passionate about photography - I have pictures of my whole life. I've always just been in front of my mom's camera, and it's always comfortable to me.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

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

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

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

I have a kid so I like to take pictures.

When I die and my memories die with me, all that will remain will be thousands of yellowing photographs and 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets.

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

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

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