Image Representation Quotes

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don't get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don't get to see seen. I would like to normalize that.

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done.

If I'm going to put my image into something, I'll put my image into something that I actually feel like I'd like to do.

Wikipedia is a strange thing. Whoever gets there first, you know, they decide. Like the picture: You can't choose it! You can't be like, 'You know, I hate that picture of me doing stand-up from 2005 - that doesn't exemplify who I am.' You take it down, and someone puts it back up.

I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.