Kevin Systrom Quotes

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

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 started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And nursing didn't feel quite right, and an old boyfriend gave me a 35-millimeter camera just to play with. So, I took a darkroom class.

I'm an image-maker.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose photography because I see photography as an applied science. There is an artistic element also in it. If you perfect your scientific element, you can attain certain quality.

What people don't know is art was my deal and engineering was my sidebar.

I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.