Antony Armstrong-Jones Quotes

I had been teaching myself photography.

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.

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

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

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.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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

I never really learned photography.

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

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.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

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

I picked up photography in high school.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

I am a huge obsessor with photography.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

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

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.