Graciela Quotes

#1. I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

Baz Luhrmann

#2. 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

#3. We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

Graciela Chichilnisky

#4. 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.

Graciela Iturbide

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

Graciela Iturbide

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

Graciela Iturbide

#7. To adventure the likes of which I think neither of us have ever seen. (Morgan)
And to fate. To the very fate that has abandoned us to turmoil. (Serenity)

Kinley MacGregor

#8. 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.

Graciela Iturbide

#9. Not that it was a crazy complicated skill, but operating an espresso machine during high traffic could be added to my repertoire along with card tricks and how to fire a Colt .45.
(Quote taken from ARC, subject to change)

Karina Halle

#10. Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#11. 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.

Graciela Iturbide

#12. The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer ...

Jose Bergamin

#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.

Graciela Iturbide

#14. The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

George Wald

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

Graciela Iturbide

#16. Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.

Brian Tracy

#17. The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas.

Anthony De Mello

#18. One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among us who had been enemies for generations forgot their grudges and joined one another against the invasion.

Graciela Limon

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

Graciela Iturbide

#20. Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

Daniel Johns

#21. I do not employ tricks when I attack.

Max Immelmann

#22. As luck would have it, I happened to have a top hat that I previously wore to my junior prom.

Chris Gethard

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

Graciela Iturbide

#24. Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.

Glenn Allison

#25. Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

Queen Of Spades

#26. The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.

Graciela Chichilnisky

#27. 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.

Graciela Iturbide

#28. The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

Graciela Chichilnisky

#29. 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.

Graciela Iturbide

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

Graciela Iturbide

#31. 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.

Graciela Iturbide