Graeme Le Saux Quotes

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

My films, no one else will do.

I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it's different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently.

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I have my own ideas when it comes to making cinema. My films should be of my liking and suit my convictions.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.