Lens Quotes by Petra Collins

Success doesn't happen overnight.

— Petra Collins

When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist.

— Petra Collins

With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.

— Petra Collins

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

— Petra Collins

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

— Petra Collins

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are…

— Petra Collins

My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can't just jump into that in Canada without knowing any English. She worked…

— Petra Collins

I started out taking photos of my friends on, like, disposable cameras, and I documented my younger sister and her friends all through high…

— Petra Collins

There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.

— Petra Collins

Hashtag activism is a catalyst, but things have to actually happen in real life.

— Petra Collins

Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's having an…

— Petra Collins

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

— Petra Collins

The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is…

— Petra Collins

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

— Petra Collins

It's so important for women to create images of women - or any group, at that.

— Petra Collins