Danny Lyon Inspirational Quotes (5)

[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.