It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped…

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that…

— David LaChapelle

“Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew…

— Whitney Otto

I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our…

— Rachel Morrison

I first picked up a camera when I was like 19 because I was unemployed and starting to get bored, and I was like…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

— Gordon Parks

I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a…

— Lisette Model

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I…

— Gordon Parks

I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with…

— Aneurin Barnard

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

— Steven Sebring

I stopped making music for other people.

— Rico Nasty

From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and…

— Ryan Babel

“I’ve picked a side,” she said darkly. “And everyone’s on it. And that’s exactly who I’m going to save.”

— Dan Wells

It's important to know how much I'll play and how much the club trusts me, that's why I picked Juventus because they told me…

— Matthijs de Ligt

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney