Teju Cole Quotes

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

I stopped playing the drums when I was ten, and I picked up Rubik's Cubes. I was doing that for a while, and then I got into cinematography.