Carrie Mae Weems Quotes

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

A camera gives you a purpose.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Literally, FX is like, 'How can we foster your vision?' My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see my life.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

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

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

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.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

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.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.