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Photojournalist Inspirational Quotes (1173)

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Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.
Gordon Parks
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Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.
Chip Berlet
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You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.
Michal Rovner
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.
Inge Morath
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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
Martin Parr
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I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion as big mouths with big hearts.
Catherine Leroy
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In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
Eugene Richards
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Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
Andreas Gursky
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A word is worth a thousand images.
Andreas Gursky
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I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Andreas Gursky
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Two seconds are a thousand years.
Andre Kertesz
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I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
Andre Kertesz
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You do not have to imagine things reality gives you all you need.
Andre Kertesz
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Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.
Andre Kertesz
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I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.
Andre Kertesz
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I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
Andre Kertesz
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Seeing is not enough you have to feel what you photograph
Andre Kertesz
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My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.
W. Eugene Smith
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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
W. Eugene Smith
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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
W. Eugene Smith
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I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
W. Eugene Smith
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The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.
W. Eugene Smith
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