Antony Armstrong-Jones Quotes

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film - now, my digital cards. But I shoot an awful lot of pictures. I don't want to hesitate, because I believe the moment is everything in a picture. So, I take the pictures.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

I think a few pictures at a time.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

My family didn't film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It's also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.

I don't click pictures. People carry a camera with them while travelling, take pictures, keep them as memories, but I don't. I don't even have a camera.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.

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

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

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.

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.