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War Photographer Inspirational Quotes (220)

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Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.
Margaret Bourke-White
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War makes its own morals.
Margaret Bourke-White
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By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.
Margaret Bourke-White
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Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.
James Nachtwey
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My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.
Thomas Steinbeck
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The pictures are there, and you just take them.
Robert Capa
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These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.
Stanley Greene
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What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
W. Eugene Smith
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In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
Robert Capa
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If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.
James Nachtwey
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Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.
Don McCullin
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Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
Brent Stirton
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One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
Chris Hondros
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If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.
Margaret Bourke-White
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If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
James Nachtwey
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I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
James Nachtwey
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If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
Lynsey Addario
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Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
David Douglas Duncan
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You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.
James Nachtwey
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I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.
Margaret Bourke-White
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Like people and let them know it.
Robert Capa
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I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?
Don McCullin
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I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.
Don McCullin
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[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)
Cecil Beaton
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