Chuck Close Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I picked up photography in high school.

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 am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

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.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

I've got a great collection of photography.

My close-up was magnificent!

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

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

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

I take a lot of pictures.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I wish I were a really good photographer.

I like to go and take pictures.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I am a huge obsessor with photography.