Scott Kelby Quotes

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

I am always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so sometimes I forget to appreciate the skill of my fellow adventurers, but I am aware of how my life has been changed by my ability with a camera.

If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

When I'm not working, I'm walking.

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.

I'm a walker, whether that's a stroll on the beach at sunset or getting up at eight o'clock on a Sunday morning and doing an eight-hour hike through a canyon. It's Zen time for me.

Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear, it can take me some time to slow down and all that time I'm missing the serendipity of the wonderful things that are all around us.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.