Rajiv Menon Quotes

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

I'm an image-maker.

I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college.

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

I don't really know how to work a camera.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.