Matthew Modine Quotes

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

Photography has always been about capturing light.

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

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

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 love photography, and I love the art of photography.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

I picked up photography in high school.

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

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.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

I take a lot of pictures.

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.

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

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.

My close-up was magnificent!

I've been working with photography for many years.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

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.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.