Georgina Chapman Quotes

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

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 am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

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.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.