Photography Quotes by Carrie Mae Weems

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open…

— Carrie Mae Weems

In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically,…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

— Carrie Mae Weems

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

— Carrie Mae Weems

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really…

— Carrie Mae Weems

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music, or pop…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

— Carrie Mae Weems

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think…

— Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose.…

— Carrie Mae Weems

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

— Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

— Carrie Mae Weems