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War Photographer Inspirational Quotes (220)

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Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman.
Phil Stern
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Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
Tim Hetherington
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You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.
Brent Stirton
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Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.
Barney Rosset
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The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
James Nachtwey
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From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.
Thomas Steinbeck
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You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)
Robert Capa
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The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Margaret Bourke-White
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The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
Robert Capa
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[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
James Nachtwey
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Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
Margaret Bourke-White
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If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.
Edward Steichen
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I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.
James Nachtwey
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My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
W. Eugene Smith
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
Edward Steichen
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If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?
Phil Stern
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My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.
Deborah Copaken
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If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Robert Capa
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It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like this is my territory and this is yours. But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.
Tim Hetherington
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Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.
Margaret Bourke-White
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Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
Marc Riboud
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith
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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Cecil Beaton
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Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone we would move on and get over it!
Deborah Copaken
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