Connor Franta Quotes

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

I'm pretty much an open book.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

When I see an artist whose work I like at a party - I'm old now, so I can do this - I go right over and tell them how much I like their work. Instantly, I'm on their side. The act of saying it takes away the competition. The act of saying it makes me not hate them anymore, because they're good.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.