I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place.
Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
