Photo Quotes

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

I can’t handle the paparazzi. They’re everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!

I was the world’s ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads… I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said ‘Grab the blade!

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.

A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.

These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

I worked with someone else’s photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn’t that be my art?

He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.