Photography Obsession Quotes

I do have a problem with someone that just wants a picture. People who ask for a selfie and don't even say hello to you, it's a weird thing that's happened in the last few years.

I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.

When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.

Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.

I got my hair braided at this event once, and when I got the pictures back from it, I just became obsessed with them. They're kind of my thing now.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.