Graciela Iturbide Quotes

#1. And I couldn't tell my mother to fuck off.I'd be killed.

Audrey Bell

#2. I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.

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#3. In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

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#4. What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

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#5. I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

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#6. I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#7. The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

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#8. Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Martin Cruz Smith

#9. By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take me out of this and save my soul from guilt!

Bram Stoker

#10. I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

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#11. As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

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#12. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

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#14. It's a lot easier to see what's irrational in another culture than it is to see it in our own.

Cheryl Chase

#15. My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.

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#16. When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

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#17. A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence.

Debasish Mridha

#18. A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

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#19. I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

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#20. I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

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#21. Our education system is today run by left-wing elitists who believe the US is too big, too arrogant, and must be reigned-in ... Real sad.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#22. In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Graciela Iturbide