Brian Skerry Quotes

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.

I was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster, I would look through these books in the library and dream about visiting Loch Ness one day… That stuff was really kind of what I loved as a kid.

As I'm a complete water baby, being by the beach helps me relax.

I love the ocean. Anywhere near the ocean will do. Preferably the Atlantic Ocean.

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

I'm living by the beach so it's nice to wake up in the morning and see the beach.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

I remember living in a pretty small neighborhood where you could play in the streets and run around like crazy. My friends and I would ride our bikes around, but instead of just riding our bikes, we were solving crimes and going out in the woods to see what lay out there.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.