Jimmy Chin Quotes

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

I always carry my camera with me.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.