Douglass North Quotes

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

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

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

I wish I were a really good photographer.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

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.

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

College was the greatest four years of my life.

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

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

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

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

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.