Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes

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

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I love working with photographers.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

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.

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 desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

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.

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