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War Photographer Inspirational Quotes (220)

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What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?
Robert Capa
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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Robert Capa
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I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.
Lynsey Addario
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Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Don McCullin
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Content alone is propaganda form alone is wallpaper.
Philip Jones Griffiths
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If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
Margaret Bourke-White
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I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
James Nachtwey
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There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.
Lynsey Addario
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Edward Steichen
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An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
W. Eugene Smith
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The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.
Lynsey Addario
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Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.
Philip Jones Griffiths
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I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.
W. Eugene Smith
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You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
Don McCullin
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I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
W. Eugene Smith
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
Margaret Bourke-White
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People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.
Philip Jones Griffiths
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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Cecil Beaton
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In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.
Lynsey Addario
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For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
Marc Riboud
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The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.
Ami Vitale
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Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Deborah Copaken
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Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Edward Steichen
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You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!
Cecil Beaton
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