Bubba Wallace Quotes

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

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

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

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

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

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.

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!