Carrie Mae Weems Inspirational Quotes (8)

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 great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

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

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

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

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

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 exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)