Image Creation Quotes

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

When I was at Capitol - and this was not Capitol's fault - I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, 'What version of me does radio want?'

When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

My image is the creation of media.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.