Rachel Morrison Quotes

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

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.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

Photography was a big part of our family.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

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.

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

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

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

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

There's nothing like being shot on camera.

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.

I love Instagram and photography.

I always liked taking photographs.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

The camera is the eye of history.