Best quotes by Mary Ellen Mark on Me

Checkout quotes by Mary Ellen Mark on Me

  • I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.
    - Mary Ellen Mark
  • I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better.
    - Mary Ellen Mark
  • I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.
    - Mary Ellen Mark
  • Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
    - Mary Ellen Mark
  • I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
    - Mary Ellen Mark
  • I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.
    - Mary Ellen Mark