Lacey Chabert Quotes

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

You don't need to retouch if you know how to light.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.

Lighting is everything in a color.

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.

My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I'm very proud of.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.