Iturbide Quotes

#1. Scotland can't afford to take their minds off the gas

Andy Townsend

#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. 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

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

Graciela Iturbide

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

Graciela Iturbide

#6. There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.

Lemony Snicket

#7. Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

Margot Robbie

#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. 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

#10. I'm so used to being within 10 minutes of my family.

Blake Lively

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Graciela Iturbide

#14. God goes ahead of a man who walks by faith, that is the beauty of faith

Sunday Adelaja

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

Graciela Iturbide

#16. 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

#17. Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

Toby Keith

#18. There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

Don Kardong

#19. We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

C.S. Lewis

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Graciela Iturbide