Jesse Herzog

18 quotes

Photographer · Canadian · Male

“Taking pretty pictures of pretty people is almost as boring as landscape photography.”

“Being able to tell you use Facetune is much more embarrassing than that slight wrinkle and little pimple you're trying to hide.”

“If your goal is to create art, the worst way you can approach it is to think about what others want to see.”

“You ever have a dream about someone and even though it's not real your whole opinion of them has changed?”

“Best compliment for a photo: looks like a painting. Best compliment for a painting: looks like a photo.”

“New Year's Resolution: lol.”

“The key to success is learning how to be persistent without being annoying.”

Tagged: Success

“Werner Herzog stole a camera to make his first feature film. What more advice do you fucking need?”

“Why do my photos of really hot guys always get so few likes on Instagram?”

“It's so much easier to edit a photo that already looks good; it's so much easier to caption a photo that already has meaning.”

“Nothing drives me more crazy than human stupidity.”

“How to gain an Instagram following: take shitty photos for a year. How to get better at photography: stop caring about followers.”

“So much of photography is about what you don't shoot.”

“I'd rather take pictures of people than just hangout and do nothing.”

“Follow me on snapchat so I don't have to answer annoying questions such as how was your weekend?”

“I caption my photos with obscure lyrics or dialogue from songs/movies with obvious titles so 1 out of 179k people gets it.”

“People take you more seriously when you have a lot of followers, but even more so when your work has meaning. Money is somewhere in between.”

“I know my photos are getting better because I'm getting less likes.”