Peter Beard Quotes

I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.

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

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

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 always liked taking photographs.

I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side of it and that part of the filmmaking world and I enjoy developing things. It's an area that I'll continue to be more active in as time goes by.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.