Erica Jong Quotes

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

I don't click pictures. People carry a camera with them while travelling, take pictures, keep them as memories, but I don't. I don't even have a camera.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Photography helps people to see.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

The camera is the eye of history.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

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.

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

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.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

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.