Documenting Experiences Quotes

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

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

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

I don't keep a journal.

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.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

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

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.

When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.

It’s terribly important to write your own history before the historians get a crack at it.