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War Photographer Inspirational Quotes (220)

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I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.
Tim Hetherington
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The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.
Marc Riboud
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For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
James Nachtwey
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith
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Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
Bill Brandt
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Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
Bill Brandt
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The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
Robert Capa
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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton
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I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board, showing them to trusted confidantes from in and outside the photo world. It started to take its shape naturally over time until I kind of ran out of ideas.
Peter van Agtmael
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I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
Margaret Bourke-White
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You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.
Thomas Steinbeck
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If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
W. Eugene Smith
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Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
Marc Riboud
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The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.
Margaret Bourke-White
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Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
Bill Brandt
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I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.
Lynsey Addario
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If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
James Nachtwey
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Edward Steichen
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The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.
Bill Brandt
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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
Marc Riboud
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Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
Philip Jones Griffiths
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
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I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.
George Rodger
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I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.
James Nachtwey
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