Om Malik Quotes

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I love photography myself.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

I've got a great collection of photography.

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.

I take a lot of pictures.

I picked up photography in high school.

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Photography is an accident.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I've been working with photography for many years.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

A photo is a creation.