Helena Christensen Quotes

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

It's something that I've always been attracted to, that idea of letting everything happen in a single frame.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

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 try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.