David Burnett Inspirational Quotes (7)

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.