Chumlee Quotes

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

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.

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

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

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

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.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

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

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

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

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