Tracy Chapman Quotes

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

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.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.

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

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

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.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

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

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