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War Photographer Inspirational Quotes (220)

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Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.
Lynsey Addario
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I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.
Marc Riboud
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I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.
Lynsey Addario
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck
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I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.
Mathew Brady
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Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.
Edward Steichen
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You can't photograph if you're not in love.
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 - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.
W. Eugene Smith
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I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.
David Douglas Duncan
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I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.
Peter van Agtmael
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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
Edward Steichen
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I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
James Nachtwey
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Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.
Tim Hetherington
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I was assigned a Taliban minder who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.
Lynsey Addario
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith
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I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.
Phil Stern
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The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.
Tim Hetherington
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It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.
David Douglas Duncan
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You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.
Margaret Bourke-White
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I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.
Don McCullin
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I've worked for over 11 years in the Muslim world, and the one thing that I feel like I've learned - who's to say if it's true or not true, it's just my experience - is that men don't like to see really strong, aggressive women in that area of the world.
Lynsey Addario
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The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated.
Philip Jones Griffiths
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I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
Thomas Steinbeck
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To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other
Ami Vitale
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