Astrid Kirchherr Quotes

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.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

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.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

I love photography myself.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.